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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. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus