Re: cases

On Monday 02 December 2002 8:03 pm, you wrote:
> En réponse à Joe <joe@...>:
> > I thought that Direct was Accusative/Nominative
>
> No, the accusative ended up with all the other cases except the nominative
> and vocative.
>
> > rex(nominative) > *regus? > roys
>
> No, *regis. The imparisyllabics were remanied according to their long
> forms.
>
> > regibus(Dative/Ablative) > *regis? > roys
>
> Rather *reges. The dative/ablative (which contained also the genitive by
> that time) fell in favour of the accusative.
>
> > regia(Nominative) > roy
>
> The Latin was |reges|. It was replaced by *regi (the second declension -i
> replaced the third declension -es in the nominative plural).
>
> > regi(Dative/Ablative) > roy
>
> Rather rege(m). The accusative -m was already falling in Imperial Latin.
>
> > I suppose that's sensible, if you assume final vowels are lost...
>
> It is indeed.
>
> Christophe.
>
>
Ok, I don't suppose ' l'ancien français ' is available in English?

It sounds like a nice language, (unlike todays french..which, IMO, sounds
like a throat infection).

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