Re: NATLANG: Irish greeting

Jeff Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 04:44:23 +0100, Stephen Mulraney
> <ataltanie@...> wrote:
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>>The 'ó' meaning 'from' is cognate to the prefix in Latin 'auferre' 'to
>>carry away' (and apparantly Old Prussian 'au-mu:snan', 'washing off').
>>Surely it has some more obvious cognate though. What am I missing?
>>
>>s.
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> In Latin, "au" is a variant of "ab" when prefixed to "f", which can also
> be "a:" or "abs". I believe this is related to Greek "apo", Sanskrit "apa",
> German "ab", English "off" and "of", and probably others.

Ah, thanks. Presumeable the older form was something like *apa then,
and Irish did its usual trick of p -> 0 everywhere (isn't that great?).

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