Re: [tied] Rum. prefix în- [Re: Androphobia]

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From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
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Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Rum. prefix în- [Re: Androphobia]


> > [George:] To no avail: it doesn't fit. The issue is not whether there
are "in > ân" cases, but whether the *prefix* in- [in] gets the Romanian
prefix în- [In]. It does -- without exception: în- in all these
circumstances is a prefix having the same function as in- in Latin and
English, en- in French, ein- in German, be- in Hungarian etc.

> [Alex:] All these prefixes come from an earlier /an / which became /en/ as
Germanic, Latin Greek and stuff.

*an- would not have become /en-/ in any of these languages. All these
prefixes reflect the PIE adprep (adverb/preposition) *h1en- which, when
employed in compounds, regularly developed into PGmc. *in-, Lat. en-, Gk.
en-. And stuff (whatever it means).

Piotr