Re: Infinitives

At 19:44 27.3.2000 +0100, Raymond Brown wrote:
> >
> >Roughly, 'I want that I (should) go'.
>
>Exactly: 'Telo  na   'pao   (T = theta)
>          I-want that I_go [aorist subjunctive]
>
>Some other examples:
>Den bo'rume na   'pame  'simera
>not we-can  that  we_go today    (we can't go today)
>
>    'prepi       na   Dja'vasete af'to to  viv'lio
>it_is_necessary that   you_read  this the book
>(you must read this book)
What is _na_ derived from, in classical Greek terms?  It looks like a
preposition borrowed part and parcel from Slavic.

Also, it occurs from your first example that there is still a full form of
_Thelo_ "I want", in spite of the future marker _tha_, which AFAIK is from
the same source.

/BP

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