Re: Question about Latin.

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:11, Elliott Lash wrote:
> > It seems to
> > belong
> >
> > > to a different way of thinking and analyzing
> >
> > (since it
> >
> > > was attached at the end of the secund term, which
> > > looks very weird to us): perhaps it came from some
> > > ancient language of a different type ?
> >
> > The suffixing "and" is from Proto-Indo-European,
> > being therein simply
> > *-kwe, and it's retained in Latin and Sanskrit, and
> > quite possibly others
> > about which I have no immediate memory, but a clear
> > and present vague
> > feeling.
>
> It also survives in archaic Old Irish, as "-ch"
>
> And it's found in Gaulish, I think, as "-pe" and
> Celtiberian perhaps as "-cwe"
>
> In Gothic you have "nih" which means "and not", where
> the "h" is probably from this same particle. There are
> other such compounds in Gothic as well.
And survives in "The Knights Who Say Nih! Nih! Nih!" ;)
>
> Elliott
>
>
>
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Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."