Re: Comparison Þrjótrunn - Icelandic - Latin

Hi!

Arnt Richard Johansen writes:
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
> > http://www.kunstsprachen.de/s17/s_01.html#03
> >
> > Comments?
>
> # False Friends
> #                 Þrjótrunn       Icelandic
> # [...]
> # þrjótur         Iceland         villain
>
> Hahaha! Wonderful!
Pure coincidence! :-)  Really! :-)

> Why the sudden change from "Þrjótran" to "Þrjótrunn", by the way?
Those are different nom.sg. forms of the adjective.  -an is feminine
and -unn is neuter.  (And the neuter used to be -un until I changed
the grammar recently.)

The reason why I changed it is that although you would say 'Þrjótran
Lyng' for 'Icelandic language', when referring to it without the
'lyng' (< lingua, thus feminine), you'd use the neuter form.  So it
has not really changed name, I just used a different adjective at
first.

**Henrik