Tuesday, May 31, 2011

French and Gascon are Romance languages

an - an
année - annada
mois - mes
semaine - setmana
jour - dia
jour - jorn
heure - ora
minute - minuta
(aujord’)hui - huei
demain - doman
hier - ier
tard - tard
dimanche - dimenge
lundi - diluns
mardi - dimarç
mercredi - dimèrcs
jeudi - dijaus
vendredi - dives
samedi - dissabte
matin - matin
midi - mieidia
après-midi - vrespe
nuit - nueit

You make the correspondences with Fr. -di = Gasc. di-, nearly every correspondence will be regular, one to one. Very much unlike Amharic as compared to Alsatian and English./HGL