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Re: Adjectives, Particles, and This ( etc ), and Conjunctions...

From:jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>
Date:Thursday, January 18, 2001, 1:05
Raymond Brown sikayal:

> >- Latin _ille_, It. lo, Espan. lo, ello, Fr. le > >- Arab. al- > >- Espan. aquel, > > But Spanish 'aquel' is from 'accu ille'. > > In VL it was clearly customary to reinforce demonstratives with the local > form of "behold" (Classical Latin _ecce_). In Italy it was (and is > _ecco_), so _questo_ <-- ecco esto, quello <-- ecco ello etc. > In the Iberian peninsular it was _accu_ (possibly a contamination of > Classical _atque_ and _eccu(m)_), so _aquel_ <-- VL accu ille; and....
Oddly enough, way over in Dacia it seems like *accu ille was in use as well, giving rise to Romanian "acel." Is the apparent connection between Rom "acel" (demonstrative) and "cel" (article?) spurious? Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu "It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and intoxicate. It is the old things that are young." -G.K. Chesterton _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_