Re: gen. -yo

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

> At 7:32:17 AM on Monday, July 5, 2004, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > And here it comes: Gothic ni aiw "never", a ne-pas
> > construction (cf ne-aiw > Engl. no); <aiw> means
> > "whatsoever".
>
> I doubt that last. I have only seen <áiws> glossed 'time,
> age, eternity' and the like, <áiw> being, I believe, the
> acc.sing.; <ni áiw> seems to be something like 'not ever'.
>

True. Substitute 'not ever' (a relative, BTW ?) then,
for 'whatsoever'. I think the argument still stands.

Torsten