Re: [tied] Re: Origin of prepositions

15-08-03 08:11, aquila_grande wrote:

> The preposition "in" was at some time a locative? case form of a
> noun/ajective as far as I know that denoted "inside". You still find
> this stem used both as a noun/adjective and adverb in many languages.

A particularly clear case is *h2anti 'against, opposite, facing' (e.g.
Gk. anti, Lat. ante, PGmc. *andi/*anda), the locative of *h2ant-
'forehead, front, face', cf. Hitt. hant- 'front, forehead' (Eng. end [<
PGmc. *andija-] is also related).

Piotr