Re: [tied] something

----- Original Message -----
From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] something


> The similarity of the initial is hardly surprising: it's the same old
*kW, delabialised and palatalised independently
>
> > If this is not wrong it appears very strange the same "ce" in
genitive "ceva" like in Slavic
>
> Not so strange at all. The suffix <-va> in <ce-va, cine-va, cum-va,
unde-va> etc. marks indefiniteness and is not a genitive ending at all.
As far as I know, it developed from an enclitic variant of 'wish, want'
(modern <vrea>)
>
> Piotr
>


Well, wait a bit. What I find curious here is that Romance has an
another composition.
For instance for "ce"
italian "che" , something= qualcosa
port. "que" , something= algo
span. "que" , something= cualquiera
french "que" , something= quelque chose

The compounding way of romanian is again a balcanic speciality? Like
"mãmãliga":-))

Alex