Re: CHAT: R: Italian Particles

Raymond Brown wrote:

> At 11:34 am +0100 21/4/00, yl-ruil wrote:
> >Raymond Brown wrote:
> [...]
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> At 9:13 pm +0100 16/4/00, yl-ruil wrote:
> >> >Out of interest,
> >> >in the Celtic languages virtually all verbs are prefixed by a particle
> >but
> >>
> >> 'virtually all' seems a bit of a hyperbole IMHO.
    Seems perfectly accurate to me. Irish and Scots Gaelic do this, Old irish
especially so (hence the larger number of irish verbs that begin in t-, thanks to
the preverb do-).

    Aidan