Latin perfects and Fluent Etruscan in 30 days!

[Steve Gustafson]

Ed Selleslagh writes:

<<May I add the following element to the data: Lat. 'amb-' ('around'), a
prepositional prefix (Greek 'amphm'), and Catalan 'amb' ('with'), probably
derived from the former.  I  think the 'b' (Grk. 'ph') is hardly a phonetic
problem.>>

This perhaps also has a sister in Germania: OE 'ymb(e)' and Norse 'um, om',
both of which are prepositions that have the basic meaning of "around" or
"by."  That the Greek and Latin words have an a- and the Germanic ones a u-
is something I can't think of an explanation for, though.

--
L'an mil neuf sens nonante neuf sept mois
Du ciel viendra grand Roy deffraieur
Resusciter le grand Roy d'Angolmois
Avant apres Mars regner par bonheur.
                                --- M. de Notre-Dame