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

[Francisc Czobor]

--- 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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