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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3"
<alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
> On the other hand: Rom. a-ia a-cea a-sta, a-ceeaSi Alb. a-jo a-
të
> a-so a-si a-saj reflect the Catalan too? Or is a common feature of
> that areal? What your common-sense will tel you here?
>
> Best Regards,
> Marius Alexandru
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As I have stated once, Alb. /a/ in: <ajo> 'she', <ai> 'he',
<atë> 'that', pl. <ata/ato> 'they' are all compound words, formed
from preposition, preverb *au- 'from, away, of' (Pokorny, *au-3(awe-
);we:-, pp. 72-73) and pronominal stems *so-, feminine *saH2- (also
*to- and feminine *taH2) and are in oposition with <ky/kjo> 'this'
and <këta/këto> 'these', compound from *kom-'by, byside, at, wtih',
akin to Latin <co(m)> (see Pokorny *kom-, pp. 612-613) and
pronominal stems *so-,saH2- as well as *to-, taH2.
So, because we haven't such opposition in Romanian, I didn't find
any connection regarding this.
Konushevci