Re: Absolute, not relative directionality

> Consensus
> says this is a loan from Latin <fundu-> "bottom", but suppose
> <ondo>/<ondar> is a pair (a beach is also a side, namely a sea-
>one).

>
>
> If this is so, <ondo> has relatives in IE and Semitic
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/md.html
>
> With a suffix -r (= Basque allative <-ar>?; Basque locative and
> directional postpositions are nouns which are inflected in locative
> and allative, with the noun they govern in the genitive) you get *n-
> dh-r- > Latin <infer->, Germanic <under> (etc).
>

Obviously this root also sprouts both nouns and prepositions.

Note further the prepositions Greek <meta>, German <mit>. Supposing
these started as postpositions in the Basque style, they suddenly
make even more sense: <in der Leute Mitte> (governed noun in the
genitive + noun in the locative) 'in the people's mid' > <mit den
Leuten> (adpositionalised noun + governed noun) 'with the people'.

Torsten