Re: some origins...
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 11, 1998, 1:32 |
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 22:08:28 +0100 lucasso <lucasso@...>
writes:
>what do you know about origins of simple word like time
>time is an abstract
>you can't touch time, you can't even see time (i've never seen time,
>are
>you?
>so why time words in every languages are so old and simple are there
>any
>ideas??
>(time, Zeit, czas, toki, tiempo, tid, ido", uair, etc...)
>
>and what about articles, what can be origins of them?
Well, about the articles, this may not really help with natlangs, but
i've theorized the origin of my conlang, Rokbeigalmki, 's definite
article. In "Modern" Rokbeigalmki it's _-a_ /?a/ attached to the end of
the word, but in Proto-Rokbeigalmki it was _a~_ /?a::/, a really long /a/
sound....as if somone was talking about something, and needed to describe
it, so paused "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....." while looking around for a suitable
example or description.
-Stephen (Steg)
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