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Padraic Brown skrev:
--- Henrik Theiling <theiling@hidden.email> wrote:3. Later Latin often used the neuter adjective as an adverb, which survives in Rum., S It. ("mi dunanu sulu" they only give me...), and colloquial Sp. ("hablas ligero" you talk quickly).This is another interesting information, since this brings me close to Icelandic.I think this is simply a common IE feature. We have it in English too: "you talk fast".
Surely. It occurs in Sanskrit too.
Icelandic also two major ways to form the adverbs: one adding -lega, and one using the neuter form.English, of course, has -ly and the plain adjective form (as we no longer have gender).
In Swedish -ligen, the cognate of -lega, is
unfortunately non-productive and restricted
to a few words, _verkligen_ and _egentligen_,
both representing different shades of "really",
being the only common ones.
ObRomlang: Slvanjek uses -m�tj < MENTE but also -mod.
Earlier I had -modu, but the fact pointed out by Ray
that the ablative merged into the accusative very early
has prompted me to change my mind.
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/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
"Maybe" is a strange word. When mum or dad says it
it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
means "no"!
(Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)