Re: head-marking
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 14, 2003, 3:45 |
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Muke Tever wrote:
> Spanish has a few; the first- and second-person singular forms of <con> "with"
> are <conmigo> and <contigo> respectively. [Of course there is not a complete
> paradigm...yet.]
And unlikely to ever develop further, as the -migo and -tigo parts are
fossilized reflexes of Latin _mecum_ and _tecum_ "with me" and "with
you", presumably itself a fossilized remanent of an earlier
postpositional use of _cum_. Thus, conmigo and contigo are,
etymologically, "with me with" and "with you with"
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