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Re: CHAT: Worse Greek 102 (was: Bad Latin 101)

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Friday, February 2, 2001, 22:07
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"), >> >>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.