Re: Spanish dialects (was: Immediateness)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 24, 1998, 0:27 |
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Pablo Flores wrote:
> In the same way, the usual contraction of the conjunction
> "con" ("with") and the second person accusative pronoun "ti" ("contigo")
> has been abandoned; we use "con vos", no contraction.
I take it you still use _conmigo_?
I love the origin of those words, con + O.S. tigo/migo < Latin
tecum/mecum < te/me + cum (origin of con) = with!, thus literally
"withyouwith" and "withmewith", presumably, the connection of that final
-go with _con_ had been forgotten.
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