Re: Just a Little Taste of Judean (Part 2)

Steg Belsky wrote:
> Wait...so how many Latin words are there for "this" ?  Tom said "ille,
> illa, illud" are the forms of "this" where e'l, la, il, elle, etc. come
> from, so then what happened to _hoc_?
Ille, illa, illud meant "that", not "this".  "That man" =3D "The man";
same origin, incidentally, as English "the".  Old English _se_ (later
_the_) was the masculine singular nominative form of the demonstrative
meaning "that".  The neuter form was _thaet_ (=FE=E6t), hence the modern
word "that".

> So, let's see...in Judean _hoc_ would be pronounced [hox].  And if the
> [x] gets absorbed before other consonants, there could be:
> (using the previous possible words)
>=20
> _the "puella"_ >> _hoppele_
Hmm, maybe.  I s'pose "this" could come to mean "the".

> Any problems?
None that *I* see.

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