<div dir="ltr">Latin: prima/ primus <div>Sanskrit: para-ma/ pratha-ma (the highest/ the first) </div><div>Pali: para-ma/ paṭha-ma</div><div><br></div><div>Latin: optima/ optimus </div><div>Pali - Sanskrit: utta-ra 'higher, upper' utta-ma 'the highest' </div><div> adha-ra 'lower' adha-ma 'the lowest' </div><div> apa-ra/ ava-ra 'lower' ava-ma 'the lowest' </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#674ea7" size="4"><b>ด้วยความซาบซึ้ง </b></font><div><font color="#674ea7" size="4"><b>สิทธิเชศวร์ เจนเรื่อย (ครูต้อง)<br></b></font></div><div><font color="#674ea7" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font color="#674ea7" size="4"><b>Much Appreciated </b></font></div><div><font color="#674ea7" size="4"><b>Sitthiches Chenruay (A. Tong) </b></font></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 26 May 2022 at 12:54, Nigel Vincent <<a href="mailto:nigel.vincent@manchester.ac.uk">nigel.vincent@manchester.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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In the Romance and Germanic languages I'm familiar with the words meaning 'before' and 'after' often have etymologies which involve a comparative or superlative suffix - e.g. the -<i>ter
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b) any references to literature where this general pattern is discussed.</div>
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Thanks in advance.</div>
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