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--- Padraic skrzypszy: > Wow! Now how many people carry copies of someone > else's conlang grammar around with them!? :) Hehe. > > Strange enough, I can find "fac�s" nowhere. > > Perhaps it hasn't made it into the online lexicon > yet. Means "face, countenance". No, it actually w�s in the online lexicon. I was just being stupid; I was all the time under the assumption that it should be some form of "to do". > > Curious. What is the etymology of these > > prepositions? > > do < (Celt) do < (IE) *de > po(z) < (Lat) apud > vor / ver < (Celt) vero < (IE) *uper Celtic! I should have done that in Wenedyk too (not Celtic, but Slavic). Frankly, I could have used "do-" for "to". Jan ===== "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito." ________________________________________________________________________ BT Yahoo! Broadband - Save �80 when you order online today. Hurry! Offer ends 21st December 2003. The way the internet was meant to be. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=21064/*http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk