Re: Romanian Verb Endings and Substratum influence (repost)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

> ************
> As I have stated once, Alb. /a/ in: <a•jo> 'she', <a•i> 'he',
> <a•të> 'that', pl. <a•ta/a•to> '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

you have the opposition you speak about: aia = the far one,
asta/aceasta = the near one.


Alex