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

As far as I know, negative prefix *n.- survived only on two-three
words in Albanian: anmik 'enemy', besides mik 'friend' < Lat. amicus,
afër 'close to, near', probably 'not far' and in the verb ankoj (cf.
Sll. pokoj).

Konushevci
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--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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