Re: head-marking
From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
Date: | Thursday, August 14, 2003, 16:27 |
> > 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"
>
>Isn't there also a third person 'consigo'?
Yes - means "with self" - with onself, with himself, with theirselves.
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