From: Jan van Steenbergen (ijzeren_jan@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 16:48:26 EST
--- Adam Walker skrzypszy:
> Does anyone know where the first "S" in despues comes from? The VL original
> was supposedly depost or depositus giving French depuis, Portuguese depois,
> Italian dopo and Rumanian dupa. Only Spanish has this extra "s". Is there
> any identifiable historical reason or was it just Spanish whimsy.
No idea. But an interesting phenomenon indeed.
> Also did Latin apud spawn any childrean besides French avec from apud+haec?
Not that I know of. In general, this is a very interesting site:
http://www.orbilat.com/Linguistics_Contrastive/Function_Words/Origin_of_the_Prepositions.html
Jan
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