Re: Lydian
| From: | Mangiat <mangiat@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 25, 2003, 14:32 |
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Daniel wrote:
> Anthony Miles wrote:
>
> > Noun Declensions
> > alu- 'priest'
> > Sg Common Pl Common
> > Nom. alus alvas
>
> I just wanted to point out that the nominative is
> usually the unmarked case in nominative languages
> (which I'm sure you already know), and in that case you wouldn't have to
mark the nominative at all.
Well, that's just a rule of thumb. 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:_.(well, after all saying the root never
shows up is not completely right: you get an apophonic weak form thereof in
the voc., _lupe_)
Luca
> It could just be _alu_ (which btw means "beer"
> in Runic Swedish :). Though there's nothing wrong with a suffix at all.
And I don't know the diachronics of Lydian, it was just something I thought
of when reading through the sketch.
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