Am So., 30. Aug. 2020 um 02:12 Uhr schrieb John Cowan <xxxxxx@ccil.org>:

> Done.  For symmetry of naming, I've changed range-start to range-first, though there is no conceptual change here.  (Linguistic note: "first" and "last" are old superlatives, as the "-st" ending shows in both English and German.  In Latin, "pr-imus" and "ult-imus" are also superlatives left over from before Latin standardized on "-issimus" as the superlative ending.)

I really like these linguistic notes. For the record, the "-st" ending
of the second person singular (in German and in Old English as in
"Whither Thou Goest") is of a different origin. The original ending
was "-s" (as in French) but then the personal pronoun "du"/"thou" was
doubled in form of an enclitic "-t".