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Branch of the Indo-European language family including all languages descended from Latin, such as French, Spanish and Italian.
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Why don't modern Romance languages have the verb "to stand"?
I'm going to sum up what was said in the comments and maybe offer some conjecture, though I don't think it's possible to answer this question with great certainty.
Latin did originally have a verb mea …
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How did Latin "aqua" became Sardinian "abba" and Romanian "apă"?
Labiovelars like /kʷ/ (that is, the Latin qu- sound) and /ɡʷ/ have turned into labial stops in at least some environments in a few different languages (almost exclusively in European Indo-European lan …
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