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Amigo Enemigo Conmigo
Just pondering - there must be some etymological connection between these words.... Right? Are there others? (Perikles?) :D
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The first two share a common ending that comes from the Latin 'mīcus'.
amīcus inimīcus The ending of the first-person comitative 'conmigo' comes from another Latin word, however. 'Conmigo' is actually a combination of two words - Spanish 'con' and Latin-derived 'migo' (from 'mecum' ('with me')). In Latin, the preposition 'cum' ('with') is used postpositionally with the personal pronouns. The second-person comitative is 'contigo' (from Spanish 'con' + Latin 'tecum' ('with you')), and there is a reflexive third-person form - 'consigo' (from 'con' + 'secum'). |
Thanks, Rusty - these connections always help me remember more vocabulary! :) I meant to get back to this thread sooner ... it seems that every school year they have us more and more busy.
Anyway, I stumbled across this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_prepositions#con - and find it interesting that "conosgo" and "convosgo" aren't used.... :) |
You're welcome.
Thanks for the link to the article about prepositions. Every student of Spanish should be able to take something away from it. |
I actually really like all of Wikipedia's grammar articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Spanish_grammar
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