Re: [tied] Japanese and Indo European

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 24912
Date: 2003-08-01

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:42:08 +0000, ghozzis <ghozzis@...> wrote:

>Hello!
>I ve studied Japanese a little bit, and what stroke me was the
>similarities in grammar with German or Latin.
>For example the imperative form has -te at the end of word.
>"Eat"--->TabeTE (cf. Ger. "issT")

In German (IE in general) -t < *-te is the imperative _plural_.

>But the infinitive looks lire in latin
>"to eat"--->TabeRU (cf. Lat. "amaRE")

The -r- in the Latin infinitive comes from -s-.


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