Re: [tied] Rom. azi (was: Derivation Rules from Old Slavic to Roman

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:26:50 +0000, Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>Whoops! I forgot the suffixed -c in the demonstrative. The Latin
>would have been _ho:c die:_. Whether _ho:die:_ is a contraction of
>that or derives from an unsuffixed form of the demonstrative, I do
>not know.

It's the unsuffixed form. Cf. the dative hui (besides huic) which by
analogy gave Romance *illui and *istui (Classical illi:, isti:).


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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