Re: Lydian

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.