Re: [tied] Re: Daci

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 12765
Date: 2002-03-20

Proto-Slavic had a large system of deictic and spacial (proximate/distal) pronouns, rather like Latin. They included the sets *onU, *ona, *ono; *tU, *ta, *to; *ovU, *ova, *ovo. They are all used in Modern Macedonian to mark both definiteness and distance, e.g. knigana 'that book over there', knigata 'the book' (as in Bulgarian), knigava 'this book here'. The neuter counterparts are -no, -to, -vo, and masculine ones, -on, -ot, -ov.
 
The origin of *on- is uncertain. I think it is ultimately related to *h1on- '(the) one' and the suffix *-h1on (I have written about this on Cybalist), but it's more like my personal opinion than anything standard.
 
Piotr
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: tgpedersen
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:22 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Daci

-on- ??
Now *that* I find intersting. It could be analysed both as Slavic
<on> "he", and as the PIE suffix *-on- of the Latin <cat-us>, <cat-on-
> example. May I inconvenience Piotr with a request for an exposition
of the standard etymology of Slavic <on> "he"?