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En réponse à Nik Taylor <fortytwo@hidden.email>: > Did any Romance languages not use adj + mente to form adverbs? Also, is > it known when that developed? Well, for what I know, even Romanian uses it (but I may be wrong), so it would account for an early use of mens, mentis to form adverbs. But maybe not as soon as AD 17... Román split off from Latin in AD 17, when > they were cut off from the rest of the world, had it developed by then? > If not, then I'd be free to devise my own derivation, but I'm not sure > how it should be formed. Why not simply generalizing the suffix -iter? On the other hand, Narbonósc, besides the usual form in -mente, can form its adverbs in -é (from L. -e). It's used mostly with long adjectives (where it's only optional), and ordinals (where it's mandatory). What are some methods used in other > languages? I'm thinking maybe abstract nouns with -cum, for example: > Quickly = celeritatecum, i.e., celeritas in the ablative with -cum. > This would produce the Román -ìtátèchì (/i-'TaTExi-/, rather a lengthy > ending, altho perhaps frequent usage would make the penultimate vowel be > dropped, yielding -ìtacchì (/i-'Taki-/) or even just -tacchì, but that > would create certain assimilations. > > But, how likely would it be that cum would become a suffix? Perhaps it > would become a kind of circumflex chìn-. ... - ìtatai (/ki-n ... > i-'TaT&/) > Maybe from analogy with mecum, tecum, etc..., overgeneralization? Christophe.