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Re:Esperanto is finding new life online by schoen on Monday June 01, 2015 @12:21AM (#9636786)
That diagram is great, but I'm not sure this sort of preposition inventory is that specific to ancient Greek. When I studied German, I feel like we had rather similar charts.

German has specific prepositions I recognize as equivalent to each main Greek preposition as defined in that chart, except maybe the distinction between εις and εν, which German would handle by a noun case distinction (ancient Greek εις την θαλασσαν → German ins Meer (accusative, < "in das"), ancient Greek εν τῃ θαλασσῃ → German im Meer (ablative, < "in dem"). German breaks up some meanings differently -- "among" is unter (shared with "beneath" rather than "between") -- but anyway there are other languages with a pretty nice set of prepositions!

Re:Esperanto is finding new life online by agumonkey on Monday June 01, 2015 @01:17PM (#9640373)
Thanks, I'm all for finding similar structures in other languages.