[gothic-l] Re: Gothic 'jah' & 'auk'

[llama_nom]

Here's a very interesting article about Gothic enclitics, including -
uh, and their Indo-European background: "Indo-European
> Syntactic Rules & Gothic Morphology", by Vyacheslav V Ivanov.

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/pies/pdfs/IESV/1/VVI_Gothic_syntax.pdf

Llama Nom


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Francisc Czobor" <fericzobor at y...>
wrote:
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <penterakt at f...>
wrote:
> > ...
> > Regarding Gothic JAH, Koebler suggests it is a combination of JA
+ -
> > UH, the latter being an enclitic particle attached to the end of
a
> > word to mean "and", like Lat. -que, with which I think it is
> cognate:
> > ...
>
> The Gothic enclitic particle -(u)h "and" is cognate with enclitic
> particles in other Indo-European languages with the same
> significance, for instance: Lat. -que, Greek -te, Sanskrit -ca.
> The reconstructed Proto-IE form is *-qwe.
>
> Francisc



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