From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 45218
Date: 2006-07-04
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel CarrasquerEquus mortuus est. We went through this just over a year
> <mcv@...> wrote:
>> On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:47:38 -0400 (EDT), Andrew Jarrette
>> <anjarrette@...> wrote:
>>>Speaking of Italian qu- as the group has been, I was
>>>wondering if anyone knew the origin of <qu-> in Italian
>>><quello> "that", <questo> "this", presumably from Latin
>>><ille, illud> and <iste, istud> with <qu> prefixed. Does
>>>anyone know the origin of <qu-> in these Italian words?
>> It's shortened from *accu(m), an emphatic particle, as in
>> Port. aquele, Sp. aquel, OSp. aquese, aqueste, Cat.
>> aquell, aqueix, aquest, Rom. acel, acest, Sard. cuDDu,
>> cussu, custu etc. In Northern Gaul (ec)ce- was used in
>> the same function: OFr. (i)cest, (i)cel.
> "*accu(m) is by no way the part which will help you to
> have Romanian "acel".