Re: Derived adpositions (< Linguistic term for ease of changing word-class)

Is that so? Then it truly is well ahead of its time. Do the other two words
have such calquey origins?
Eugene

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 2:17 PM, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:

> Eugene Oh wrote:
>
>> Perhaps "nonetheless", "notwithstanding", "nevertheless" were ahead of
>> their
>> time in descriptivity ;)
>>
>
> "nonetheless" looks to me suspiciously like a calque of Classical Latin
> "nihilominus" which, I guess, puts it way ahead of its time   :)
>
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