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Re: [westasianconlangs] Ezafe

Eamon Graham wrote:

Hi Everyone,
Where the Persian particle -ra derives from the Old Iranian postposition radiy (> -rad > -ra), meaning "on account of, for the sake of, goal, purpose," what then is the origin of the Persian ezafe? 



The ezafe derives from the Indo-European relative pronoun *yo-.

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