Re: Romance articles/pronouns
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 21, 2001, 0:42 |
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I always forget, but I am quite sure Brithenig (and for that
matter, all the principle Romano-British dialects found in
Ill Bethisad) forms it's 3rd person pronoun from ipse: ys,
masc.; sa, fem. The plural forms (llo and lla) as well as the
def. art. are from ille: ill, lla, llo.
Padraic.
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:
>D Tse wrote:
>> I think some language (specifically which I cannot remember,
>> Sardinian?) used reflexes of Latin ipse for their definite article,
>> but I'm not too sure.
>
>Yep. Catalán is another example.
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