Hola ! Martin, I see you are learning Catalan as wel!! That great, I did
it also asyou know.
Its interesting! Well Catalan in fact is a Romanic (Latin originated
languadge) and its nota a surprise to use latin terms but, as far as I
know, welsh is not!! So how can we explain such approach?
Adonis
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Martin Owen wrote:
> As I expected (but needed cofirmation), the Irish language uses latinate
> borrowings for culture: cultúr and pesonality: pearsantacht.
>
> Catalan: cultura and personalitat.
>
> I have arranged for the Melin resources to be available outside the
> firewall if anyone is interested in looking up the word "culture" in Welsh
> you will find 3 translations.
>
> http://www.melin.bangor.ac.uk/
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> Martin O
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