Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] comparative historical linguistics was Re:Nun-Tav-Vetroot
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:56:06 -0600
The English 'er' in prisoner=prison+er=prison+are is likewise a personal
pronoun.
A) 'prisoner' brought its suffix over from French
B) '-er' has never had anything to do with 'are'. Different stem
altogether
C) characterizing an agentive affix as a 'pronoun' does makes a kind of
metaphoric sense, but at the price of making the term 'pronoun'
virtually meaningless.