Latin mecum, tecum, etc.

Rick Mc Callister rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu
Thu Jun 28 21:37:22 UTC 2001


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	Old Spanish had conosco & convosco

>Ha, not only *wlkos was not allowed on the hunt,
>but cunn- was taboo too in rhetorics... But what
>about "cum nostribus (...)" or "cum novis (...)"
>or similar? Maybe less frequent.

>>> May *kom (cum) and *ko (cis) and *kwe (-que) be related etymologically
>>> around the idea of "here-nearby-with"?

>> No.  Latin cum has a good PIE history in *kom or *km, and -que has a
>> different one in *-kwe.  (different consonant, different vowel)

>No *ko-we > *kwe pattern envisionable? (*-we being
>just a dummy placeholder here).

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701



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