Latin perfects and Fluent Etruscan in 30 days!
Steve Gustafson
stevegus at aye.net
Tue Jun 22 03:22:12 UTC 1999
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
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