Timeline for Latin version of "non ho che un" or "je n'ai qu'un"
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| Aug 13, 2020 at 14:37 | answer | added | Rafael | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 13, 2020 at 12:56 | answer | added | tony | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 20:55 | answer | added | Mitomino | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 13:04 | answer | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 7, 2020 at 14:31 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | @Rafael That Spanish requires its plus unlike Italian and French is good evidence that the omission is not global and thus might not trace back to Latin. (And that the whole thing could or should be seen as omission of plus/más/più.) I'm getting pretty convinced – and I'm glad to learn more about Spanish as I'm in the slow process of learning some basics. | |
| Aug 7, 2020 at 14:13 | comment | added | Rafael | I guess (but it is no more than a far fetched guess) the omission of the word for more is a regional thing. In Spanish the "más" is needed: you can't say *no tengo que un amigo. | |
| Aug 7, 2020 at 13:58 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | @Rafael I am looking for the closest Latin equivalent of the Romance thing. Perhaps there is indeed no exact match. I agree that Latin seems to require plus (as in your non plus quam unum amicum habeo or my non habeo plus quam unum amicum), but there might be options in Latin I had considered impossible. If there's an answer "you can't get closer than that" with upvotes, I'd be happy to consider the matter settled, as it's hard to prove impossibility. Any insight into the origins of the Romance construction would be fun, too, as it would shed light on the absence in Latin. | |
| Aug 7, 2020 at 13:37 | comment | added | Rafael | Constructions like non plus ultra suggest me something like non plus quam amicum unum habeo. But it seems implied by your question that you are looking for somethinkg more concise, not that "regularly" grammatical, so to say? | |
| Aug 7, 2020 at 11:24 | history | edited | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2020 at 11:27 | history | asked | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |