Re: Question about Latin.

> 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.

Elliott


		
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