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Re: Lydian

From:Mangiat <mangiat@...>
Date:Monday, January 27, 2003, 11:12
John 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?)
I don't know the Sardinian word for "wolf" for sure, but it might very well be _lupu_. Sardinian is reknown for its final -u's which make it so funny (to a Std Italian ear): It. bello Sa. beddu (_dd_ is a retroflex- what's it in SAMPA-IPA?) Luca
> 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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John Cowan <jcowan@...>