Re: New Arvorec words
| From: | Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 31, 2001, 6:45 |
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> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 20:53:59 -0400
> From: John Cowan <cowan@...>
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> > All fetuses (feti, fetora?)
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> "Fetuses". "Fetus" in Latin is AFAICT only an adjective.
Fe:tus in Latin is is both a second-declension adjective (pregnant or
fruitful) and a fourth-declension masculine noun (a birthing, hence
offspring or a crop). The noun plural is fe:tu:s.
(This is the same sort of deverbal noun as apparatus from apparo, but
in this case the verb did not survive into recorded Latin. Ray and I
hashed it out on the list several years ago, and I think we concluded
that it might have been something like fe:o/fe:vi/fe:tus/fe:re.
Cognates are Danish die and Sam.skr.ta dhayati, which mean to suckle).
Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)