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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi

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To: Thomas C. White who wrote (6544)1/22/1998 7:03:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
>It's a German bastardization of the French motif <
Nope. Independent assimilation of Latin.
Everything we end in "ive" in English that comes out of Latin, and which Germans took from the same source: Typically adjectives.
The "v" gets an "f" pronunciation.
primitiv
votiv
formativ
Massiv (noun, mountains, we took the French "massif")
and today's Big Winner: lasziv
Viel Vergngen
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