Re: CHAT: Worse Greek 102 (was: Bad Latin 101)
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 2, 2001, 22:07 |
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On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Raymond Brown wrote:
>At 1:09 am +0100 2/2/01, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
>>John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:
>[....]
>>> "Viri" (or doubly illiterate
>>> "virii"),
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>>The latter form has always puzzled me. _Viri_ is understandable, from
>>thinking it's an o-stem,
>
>Actually it is an o-stem. It's one of the few _neuters_ which, like
>_uulgus_ (multitude, the people) and _pelagus_ (sea), have their nominative
>& accusatives in -us. The genitive is _uiri_ and the dative & ablative are
>_uiro_.
Do you know if there is any relationship between these particular
words and the -s stem neuters? I.e., possible declensional migration?
>Ray.