From: tgpedersen
Message: 61857
Date: 2008-12-04
>That was *you* being puzzled by the acc., not me.
> On 2008-12-03 22:11, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Gothic ni ... aiw is acc.sg. Apparently that *xajw- might have
> > relatives in Fin. and Est. besides those in Semitic and Etruscan
> > we discussed earlier, so we shouldn't expect those relics to
> > conform to the IE case system (cf. ever, aeternus etc).
>
> There's absolutely nothing non-IE about the accusative expressing
> things like duration.
> Cf. Lat. multos annos 'for many years', Pol.No, but 'ever' and 'aeternus' cause trouble.
> chwile, 'for a while', Skt. saMvatsarám 'for a full year' and so
> on, and so forth.