Frédéric Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer
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-astre. In French this suffix has the form -âtre. óulivastre (Fr. olivâtre), _olive in color_. -at. Coustat is in French _côté_ (side). The suffix is often diminutive. auc, _a gander_. aucat, _gosling_. passero, _sparrow_. passerat, _small sparrow_. -au, -alo. This is the form of the widely used suffix -al. Mistral uses paternau for _paternal_, and also the adjective formed upon paire, _father_, peirenau, peirenalo, _fatherly_. bourg, _city_. bourgau, bourgalo, _civil_. |
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