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

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?

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