Thursday, January 23, 2020

Mi no sabe

savvy (n.)
Vulgar Latin *sapere, from Latin sapere "be wise, be knowing"
sabedor - savvy

The Latin, we will never be rid of it

Past participle endings:


-ADO in Spanish From Latin -ātus, from Proto-Italic *-ātosDoublet of -ato.

-ed - English.

Related? Not through Latin says the book. Their paths back never merged. But the Latin version of the past event came from Indo-European, and likely so did the ed. on the path back to old German.  The concept likely was adopted separately. IE seems to be a powerful common denominator.

It seems to me the IE people themselves must have brought the language down long before, maybe 4k years and it became standard across Europe to an extent before the Roman version of Latin.? Dunno, yet.

They did not have paper, they did not have papyrus, it was too far to transport papyrus reliably.How did they do this without writing material?  Did they write on something , wooden planks? Otherwise, it was a poets world, poets being the highest of all the population for their ability to deliver an accurate annunciation across central Europe.

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