Re: Negation

> The details can be debated. I personally find *h2oju a little out
> of place here if the interptetation is really 'in one's life'. I
> would expect a locative, whereas *h2oju is clearly nom./acc.
> (presumably acc., to be precise). Perhaps *ne h2oju kWid should
> rather be understood, roughly, as '(for) no lifetime
> no-matter-how-long' (i.e., never in the foreseeable future).
> Anyway, *h2oju-kWid explains also Arm. oc^' and Alb. s 'not', and
> an exact parallel (pointed out by Cowgill) is provided by OIc. eigi
> 'not' = ei ~ ey 'always' (= Goth aiw, OE a:, cognate to *h2oju-) +
> -gi- 'at all' (which may well reflect *kWi-). If Cowgill's
> etymology is regarded as brilliant, it's because it reaches way
> beyond Greek.

http://tinyurl.com/65sgo8
Gothic ni ... aiw is acc.sg. Apparently that *xajw- might have
relatives in Fin. and Est. besides those in Semitic and Etruscan we
discussed earlier, so we shouldn't expect those relics to conform to
the IE case system (cf. ever, aeternus etc).


Torsten