Re: Tech _hay_
From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
Date: | Monday, July 9, 2001, 21:36 |
From: "Muke Tever" <alrivera@...>
| >This is not the vocative case; it's something else, and I need a good
| Latinate
| >name for it.
|
| Hey! (*hay?) - isn't that a mirative?
Mirative? Would that be the meaning "behold, X", where X is the noun in its
absolute form. Actually, *hay apparently has cognates in Germanic: English hey,
Scandinavian hej, etc.
~DaW~
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