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Re: Lydian

From:Mangiat <mangiat@...>
Date:Saturday, January 25, 2003, 14:32
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.
> > Daniel Andreasson > > -- > http://www.conlanglinks.tk

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