sangi39 wrote:
Wiktionary wrote:
From Proto-Celtic *sindos (“this”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḗm (“one”) or *só (“this”); weak doublet of sin (“this”).
...which is tantamount to them saying "buggered if we know!"...
Matasovic suggests the accusative singular of the feminine demonstrative, si:m, plus a "particle", do, or possibly de, from which he suggests a link to Greek -de. Similarly, he suggests a parallel masculine sondo underlying the Welsh and Irish words for "here". The feminine demonstrative itself he derives from the pronominal element s-, plus a "motion suffix" -ih2 (although since -ih2 and derivatives (eg -ih2k) appear as feminines elsewhere I don't think 'motion' is necessary).
That's not quite 'buggered if I know'... but to be honest it's not much better, is it? When you have to break a word up into one-phoneme morphemes and you still can't be clear what half of them mean, that's not a good sign...
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