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Re^4: The Germanic language form

by girarde (Hermit)
on Jun 04, 2007 at 20:31 UTC ( [id://619224]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: The Germanic language form
in thread The Germanic language form

I'm not really a Latinist, but I do recall a book titled "Winnie ille Pooh" by Milne.

Anyway, I usually prefer to make weak assertions.

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Re^5: The Germanic language form
by blazar (Canon) on Jun 04, 2007 at 22:07 UTC
    I'm not really a Latinist, but I do recall a book titled "Winnie ille Pooh" by Milne.

    Neither am I, in fact I've almost completely forgotten it, notwithstanding the five years I studied it at school, and I was rather good at it, go figure! Anyway, there are no articles: what that you mention is "ille, illa, illud", an adjective and a pronoun akin to English' "that" but also having the acceptation of "that famous", "the very renown". Indeed I seem to remember (caution because in turn I'm not a linguist) that modern Italian (definite) articles, "il, lo, la, gli, le" are to some extent weak forms of those Latin words. By contrast Sardu, which is considered a language of its own rather than an Italian dialect, also has definite articles, but they're completely different and deriving from Latin "ipse, ipsa, ipsum".

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