Re: OT: slightly OT: language ID's?
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 4, 2001, 18:03 |
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On Fri, 4 May 2001, Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
> -as is the genitive ending, I think. I don't really know Latvian, but
> this is definitely not in Lithuanian (which e. g. doesn't use macrons over
> _a_ and _i_)
What an imbecile I am...I must have had a vapour-lock in the brain and
tried to drive off anyway...of course, you are right.
>
> Also, -(i)niek- sounds like a typical Latvian suffix (would be -inink- in
> Lithuanian). And bra:li:ti is perhaps a form (nom/voc. pl.?) of a
> diminutive from 'brother' (= Lith. _brolytis_?). My Lithuanian is worse
> than just rusty, though ;)
>
Probably better than my very superficial knowledge of it...my knowledge of
Latvian being only slightly better...
-------ferko
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