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Re: 3rd Person Pronouns Derived from "Is"/"Ea"



Hmmmm-- before anybody calls my bluff, I suppose, after looking it
over, I shouldn't say for sure that *unstressed* 'i' shifted to 'e'--
but obviously there was a lowering in many cases (i.e., CL 'lingua' >
'lengua').

Needless to say, I haven't yet picked up my copy of "From Latin to
Romance in Sound Charts." :-P

--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Mark G" <codename_gimmick@...> wrote:
>
> Bear with me, guys, this is the first in a series of questions I'm
> posting (which I'm posting separately, because besides their relation
> to Romance languages, are unrelated)... I'm feeling inquisitive. :-P
> 
> Is there any evidence that some Romance languages retained the third
> person pronouns "is" and "ea?" I know I've seen Italian dialects that
> have the feminine pronoun "ea," but looking at their masculine
> counterparts, it typically looks like that may just be a mutated
> version of "illa" that lost the lateral.
> 
> I'm aware that Spanish contains demonstrative pronouns "eso" and
> "ésto"-- perhaps "eso" is a derivation from "is"? It seems to fit the
> vowel shift of unstressed 'i' to 'e'.
> 
> What I'm curious to see, though, are 'is' and 'ea' used as they were
> used in CL... even better, are there any conlangs that retain these
> usages?
> 
> Just some morbid curiosity-- I'm toying with the idea of doing this
> myself in my own conlang... I'm sure I'll decide that regardless of
> the answers, but a guy can still be curious, yeah? :-)
>