Re: Spanish pronouns

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:12:42 -0800, jesse stephen bangs
<jaspax@...> wrote:

>No, "se" was a pronoun in Latin, too.  It was the reflexive accusative
>pronoun "his/herself".  In most of the Romance langs it replaced
>the dative pronoun when there was another accusative pronoun present, as
>well as retaining reflexive and sometimes passive usage.
I read somewhere that in Old Spanish there was a contracted form _jelo_
or _xelo_, corresponding to Italian _glielo_. Like in many other cases,
Old Spanish had <j> for Vulgar Latin palatalized /l_j/. (Note that Spanish
<ll> mostly descends from V. L. clusters, and wasn't a palatalized sound
at first).

This <jelo> got to be pronounced /Selo/ at some stage, and then was mixed
with se + lo /selo/ (instead of developing regularly to some /xelo/).

Dunno about Rumanian.


Basilius