I should read this entire book. This link is to page 314 which discusses the word 'CESTUI', and while wading through the text (it is difficult...old french, old latin, modern french, vulgar latin...and then there's my inept concept of the english language!) of section entitled "The Pronoun" and reading the examples Mr. Arsene Darmesteter provided I finally REALIZED why I even included the words "lui" and "celui" in the examples in my previous post...because "CESTUI" is "CE" "EST" "LUI"! DUH! I was so desperately trying to communicate this to myself!!!!
Anyway, it's all in this great, long, book and I think the entire thing is available online via Google Books.
One mystery (partially) solved!
And that's why this blog is called...
REALISE!
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