Re: Offensive stress (was: those irregular prepositions)

--- caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
schrieb:

> Actually, in this expression, "con" is short for
> "contra" which does mean "against." It has nothing
> to do with "with," except in its derivation: contra
> < a PIE suffixed form *kom-tra.
Oh, really? I had no idea. I thought they were two
distinct lexemes, 'con' and 'contra', and that 'con'
was the form of 'cum' used in prefixes and such.

What did *tra mean in PIE?


		
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