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Re: Lydian

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Sunday, January 26, 2003, 17:03
On Sunday 26 January 2003 4:52 pm, John Cowan wrote:
> 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?).
Sardinian has '-u', I believe. Romanian has '-u' too, I think.