Re: head-marking

on 8/13/03 11:43 PM, Nik Taylor at yonjuuni@EARTHLINK.NET wrote:

> 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"
Isn't there also a third person 'consigo'?

Josh Roth