Re: OT: slightly OT: language ID's?
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 4, 2001, 15:24 |
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-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_)
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 ;)
Basilius
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On Thu, 3 May 2001 13:32:31 -0700, Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
wrote:
>On Thu, 3 May 2001, Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2 May 2001 22:14:29 -0400, Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> wrote:
>>
>> >Celiesti, braliti (the a and i have macrons? over them in the 2nd word),
>> >Skandinieki, Folkloras Draugu Kopa
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>> Latvian for certain.
>>
>Disagree. Latvian has lost -as as a marker, it has dropped the
>/a/ there, so 'folkloras' would be 'folklors'...
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