Editing Romansh language (section)

=== Latin stock ===
Like all languages, Romansh has its own archaisms, that is, words derived from Latin that in most other Romance languages have fallen out of use or taken niche meanings. Examples include ''baselgia'' "church" (cf. [[Vegliote]] ''bašalka'', [[Romanian language|Romanian]] ''biserică''), ''nuidis'' "grudgingly, reluctantly" (< Latin ''invitus''), ''urar'' "to pray" (cf. [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] ''orar'', [[Romanian language|Romanian]] ''a ura'' ‘to wish’), ''aura'' "weather" (cf. [[Old French]] ''ore'', [[Aromanian language|Aromanian]] ''avrî''), ''scheiver'' "carnival",<ref>Schläpfer & Bickel 2000</ref> ''cudesch'' "book", the last two of which are only found in Romansh. The non-Engadinese dialects retain ''anceiver'' ~ ''entschaiver'' "to begin", from Latin ''incipere'', otherwise found only in Romanian ''începe'', whereas Surmiran and Engadinese (Putèr, Vallader) and all other Romance languages retain a reflex of Latin *''cuminitiāre'', e.g. Engadinese ''(s)cumanzar'', Italian ''cominciare'', French ''commencer''. Other examples are ''memia'' (adv.) "too much" from Latin ''nimia'' (adj., fem.) (otherwise only found in [[Old Occitan]]),<ref>Liver in Schläpfer & Bickel 2000, p. 217</ref> ''vess'' "difficult" from Latin ''vix'' "seldom"<ref name="Liver">{{cite book |first=Ricarda |last=Liver |chapter=Le romanche (rhéto-roman) des Grisons |trans-chapter=Graubünden Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance) |title=Dictionnaire des langues |trans-title=Dictionary of Languages |location=Paris |publisher=PUF |date=2011 |page=604}}</ref> (cf. [[Old Spanish]] ''abés'', Romanian ''abia'' < ''ad vix''), and Engadinese ''encleger'' "to understand" (vs. non-Engadinese ''capir''), also found in Romanian ''înțelege'' and [[Albanian language|Albanian]] ''(n)dëgjoj'', from Latin ''intellegere''. Some unique innovations include ''tedlar'' "to listen" from Latin ''titulare'' and ''patertgar'' "to think" from ''pertractare''.<ref name="Liver" />