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Re: ipse (was: No pronoun, no article)

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Thursday, October 23, 2003, 3:11
Ray Brown wrote:
> In Classical Latin -met exists as a pronominal _suffix_ intensifier, > e.g. egomet (I myself), mihimet (to me, myself) > Also attested are: memet, nosmet, nobismet, tutemet, tibimet, vosmet. > We even find 'meamet' where it's suffixed to a possessive adjective. > > One suspects that in the spoken language 'met' had a more independent > existence before ending up _prefixed_ to *issimus.
I don't know much about Vulgar Latin, so I might be completely out in left field, but is it possible that that was simply a reanalysis? E.g., *mihimet issimus -> *mihi metissimus? -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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