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'san' in the [sã] pronunciation is a homophone of 'sang', meaning blood. Alpheratz suggests 'mu(n)', 'tu(n)', 'su(n)'<ref name=":13" /> as synthetic form. However, 'tu(n)' is a homophone of the subject pronoun 'tu' and, <nowiki><u> — i. e. [y] — is a linguistically marked phone,</nowiki><ref>Waugh, Linda R./Lafford, Barbara A. (2008): Markedness. In: Booik, Geert/Lehmann, Christian/ Mugdan, Joachim/Kesselheim, Wolfgang/Skopeteas, Stavros: ''1. Halbband. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Flexion und Wortbildung''. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 272-280. DOI : <nowiki>https://doi.org/</nowiki> 10.1515/9783110111286.1.fm. </ref><ref>Rice, K. (2007). Markedness in phonology. In: ''The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology'', 79-98. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511486371.005.</ref> The alternate forms 'mi(ne)', 'ti(ne)', 'sine' or  (only the roundness parameter distinguishes the vowel i [i] from u [y]), originate from Spanish 'mi' or English 'my' and Swedish 'min', 'din', as well as from the gender neutral reflexive possessive pronoun 'sin'<ref>Duolingo Wiki: ''Swedish Skills. Possessives''. Online at:https://duolingo.fandom.com/wiki/Swedish_Skill:Possessives.</ref> — the last one having no optional '-ne' ending to avoid homophony with 'si', meaning 'if'.
'san' in the [sã] pronunciation is a homophone of 'sang', meaning blood. Alpheratz suggests 'mu(n)', 'tu(n)', 'su(n)'<ref name=":13" /> as synthetic form. However, 'tu(n)' is a homophone of the subject pronoun 'tu', and <nowiki><u> — i. e. [y] — is a linguistically marked phone</nowiki><ref>Rice, K. (2007). Markedness in phonology. In: ''The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology'', 79-98. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511486371.005.</ref><ref>Carvalho, Joaquim (Brandão de) (2023): “From binary features To elements: Implications for markedness theory and phonological acquisition”. In: ''Radical: A Journal of Phonology'' 3, 346-384. Here specifically: 352-353.</ref>. Alternative forms could be 'mi(ne)', 'ti(ne)', 'sine', because only the roundness parameter distinguishes the original neologisms with [y] from the alternatively proposed neologisms with [i]. 'sine' is the only one having no optional '-ne' ending to avoid homophony with 'si', meaning 'if'. Similar possessive adjectives can be found in Spanish ('mi'), in English ('my') in Swedish ('min', 'din', 'sin', the last one being a gender neutral reflexive possessive pronoun),<ref>Duolingo Wiki: ''Swedish Skills. Possessives''. Online at:https://duolingo.fandom.com/wiki/Swedish_Skill:Possessives.</ref> in Norwegian,<ref>Norwegian University of Science and Technology (no data): ''8 Grammar. Possessives''. Online at: https://www.ntnu.edu/now/8/grammar.</ref>  in Swiss-German,<ref>Klaudia Kolbe (2017): ''Schweizerdeutsch. Schlüssel zu den Übungen.'' Online at: https://silo.tips/download/schweizerdeutsch-schlssel-zu-den-bungen.</ref>  and in other Germanic languages. Since 60% of of humans are multilingual<ref>Sean McGibney (2023): ''What Percentage of the World’s Population is Bilingual? Introduction to Bilingualism: Exploring the Global Language Diversity''. Online at: https://www.newsdle.com/blog/world-population-bilingual-percentage.</ref>, cross-linguistic influence could be used to facilitate the remembrance and adoption of neologisms.<ref>VAN DIJK C, VAN WONDEREN E, KOUTAMANIS E, KOOTSTRA GJ, DIJKSTRA T, UNSWORTH S. (2022): Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous and early sequential bilingual children: a meta-analysis. In: ''Journal of Child Language'' 5, :897-929. doi:10.1017/S0305000921000337.</ref><ref>van Dijk C, Dijkstra T, Unsworth S. Cross-linguistic influence during online sentence processing in bilingual children (2022): In: ''Bilingualism: Language and Cognition'' 4, 691-704. doi:10.1017/S1366728922000050.</ref>


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