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==Vocabulary== | ==Vocabulary== | ||
===Months of the year, days of the week=== | |||
Month names in Atlantic are, except for the first five, quite different from the standard set used in other Romance languages, even though their origin is often semantically similar (though etymologically different, except for September) to Sardinian. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! English !! Atlantic !! Origin | |||
|- | |||
! January | |||
| ''iamboir'' || Latin <small>IANVĀRIVM</small> | |||
|- | |||
! February | |||
| ''fiuroir'' || Lat. <small>FEBRVĀRIVM</small> | |||
|- | |||
! March | |||
| ''març'' || Lat. <small>MARTIVM</small> | |||
|- | |||
! April | |||
| ''arbìu'' || Lat. <small>APRĪLEM</small>, through early dissimilation to *arpīl. | |||
|- | |||
! May | |||
| ''moi'' || Lat. <small>MĀIVM</small> | |||
|- | |||
! June | |||
| ''sançuàint'' || Lat. <small>(MĒNSEM) SANCTĪ IOANNĒS</small> | |||
|- | |||
! July | |||
| ''citurçon'' || Lat. <small>(MĒNSEM) TRĪTV̄RATIŌNIS</small> "month of threshing".<ref>In this and following month names, the genitive ending probably got mistaken as nominative as cases were merging and thus got deleted.</ref> | |||
|- | |||
! August | |||
| ''sunçon'' || Lat. <small>(MĒNSEM) ASSV̄MPTIŌNIS</small> | |||
|- | |||
! September | |||
| ''cabudain'' || Lat. <small>CAPVT ANNĪ</small> | |||
|- | |||
! October | |||
| ''nuriçon'' || Lat. <small>(MĒNSEM) NV̄TRĪTIŌNIS</small>, referring to manure | |||
|- | |||
! November | |||
| ''unniusantor'' || Lat. <small>(MĒNSEM) OMNIVM SANCTŌRVM</small> | |||
|- | |||
! December | |||
| ''nodoi'' || Lat. <small>(MĒNSEM) NĀTĀLIS</small><ref>Note that "Christmas" in Atlantic is a different word, ''nodiudòd'' /nodiwˈdod/ < Lat. <small>NĀTĪVITĀTEM</small>.</ref> | |||
|} | |||
Days of the week follow the ecclesiastic terminology also used by Portuguese and Galician; note the initial /z/ in the word for Sunday that points to <small>DIEM DOMINICAM</small> > *diðuminga > /zuˈmiɡa/: | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! English !! Atlantic | |||
|- | |||
! Sunday | |||
| ''geumiga'' | |||
|- | |||
! Monday | |||
| ''fereasiguna'' | |||
|- | |||
! Tuesday | |||
| ''fereatirça'' | |||
|- | |||
! Wednesday | |||
| ''fereaporda'' | |||
|- | |||
! Thursday | |||
| ''fereapinta'' | |||
|- | |||
! Friday | |||
| ''fereasiça'' | |||
|- | |||
! Saturday | |||
| ''sàmbad'' | |||
|} | |||
===Cardinal points and continents=== | ===Cardinal points and continents=== | ||
The cardinal points in Atlantic are Arabic borrowings, but their related adjectives are Latin: | The cardinal points in Atlantic are Arabic borrowings, but their related adjectives are Latin: | ||