| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 14, 1999, 19:05 |
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:> Andrew Smith wrote: > > Brithenig has two words for "you" in the same pattern: familiar (ty) and > > formal/plural (gw). > > What is the origin of _gw_?"vos". If I remember aright, Latin v [w] -> gw & final -s drops away. I'm not sure what happened to the o, though. Probably got lost in the shuffle. :) Or dissapeared into a vocalised w. Padraic.> > -- > Happy that Nation, - fortunate that age, whose history is not diverting > -- Benjamin Franklin > http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files/ > http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html > ICQ #: 18656696 > AIM screen-name: NikTailor >