Re: USAGE: 2nd pers. pron. for God
| From: | Ángel Serrano <aingelja@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 16, 2002, 11:53 |
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Aha, I thought "you" was derived from the nominative 2nd person plurar "ge" instead
of the accusative "eow"...
>"You" is derived from the accusative (?) plural 2nd person >pronoun in
>Old English, _eow_, which became /jo:/, IIRC, in Middle >English, and
>thence, via the Great Vowel Shift, /ju:/
By the way, in Aingeljã, we used the 2nd person PLURAL to talk to God, as it is
the courtesy way to speak, equivalent to the Spanish "usted" or the German
"Sie". For example, in the "Our Father", we say:
"Nou Pare, qwe ETS nou cell, ..."
instead of: "Nou Pare, qwe ES nou cell, ..."
Adio!
Ángel Serrano.
A Pagga doul'Aingeljã - La página del Angeliano - Angelian's Homepage
http://es.geocities.com/aingelja
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