Re: Lydian

Mangiat scripsit:

> Latin cases are _all_ marked in some
> nominal declension paradigms, and most IE languages have the same
> alternations. The root _lupo-_, for instance, (wolf) never shows up, indeed:
> you get _lupus_ in the nom. and _lupum_ in the acc.; you have _lupo:_ in the
> dat. and abl., but with a long _o:_.
It's not 100% clear how real "lupus" and "lupum" are; in Old Latin writing
we find "lupos", "lupom", and that may have always been the actual
pron. even before the Romance collapse of short u into o.  (What has
Sardinian got here?)  In any event, -s and -m were pretty much gone by the
first century B.C.E. though maintained in conservative Latin orthography.

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