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

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From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] Rum. prefix în- [Re: Androphobia]



> Piotr, in my dictionary for Latin "in-" with older form "en" I have here
> the PIE *n ( under "n" is a little circle, I don't know how I have to
> write it here).
> The other PIe languages shows an "an".
> toch. an-, en-, em-
> Avest. & Sansk & Old Prussian "a-" and before "i" and "u" is "an-"
> Armenian: an-
> Greek a- but before vowel becomes too an "an-"
> kymr, korn, bre = an-

That's a different Latin in- (excuse the typo in my previous posting; I
meant Class.Lat. in-, not en-) -- the _negative_ prefix from OLat. en- < PIE
*n.- (the reduced form of *ne 'not'). As you see, it does not go back to
*an- either. Armenian and Celtic an-, as well as Greek and Indo-Iranian a-
(with the nasal retained only before vowels) are _regular reflexes of PIE
syllabic *[n.]_. Germanic has un-, also a regular reflex of that.

Piotr