Subject: Re: Englishistic

From: "Alfred W. Tueting (Tüting)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 20:29:00 -0000

--- In [email-masked], Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@M...> wrote:
> Robin Turner wrote:
> > "Alfred W. Tueting (Tüting)" wrote:
> > > As far I can see, "yet/still/already etc." are quite the same
> > > in most European languages: also "no longer" (=not more) seems
> > > equivalent - "nicht mehr", "non ... plus", "non ... piu`",
> > > "nu mai": Yet Hungarian is different: már (=already),
> > > [...] and *már nem=no longer*(!)
> 
> So what's different about that? It's the same as Spanish (_ya no_),
> not to mention the Slavic languages.

So what's *not* different about the languages mentioned: would you
give some examples of "already not" for "no longer" e.g. in 
Slavic languages (could Hungarian be influenced by the Slavic
neighbourhood? What's about that in Finland - vagy a rokonaiknál
az 
Eszteknél?)
Altaic, Uralic - Finno-Ugric ... (atya/ata, alma/alma, tenger/deniz;
bátor/baatar; kéz/käsi, vér/väri, egy/üksi,
kettö/kaksi, 
harom/kolmen ... )

.aulun.