Re: CHAT: Worse Greek 102 (was: Bad Latin 101)
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 2, 2001, 22:14 |
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On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Luís Henrique wrote:
>On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 01:09:35 +0100, =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Rhiemeier
><joerg.rhiemeier@...> wrote:
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>>_Viri_ is understandable, from
>>thinking it's an o-stem, but whence the second _i_ in _virii_? This
>>would require an underlying singular form _**virius_.
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>How would be "vir" (male human being) be declensed?
Only the nominative singular is odd in these few words (vir, puer,
adulter, miser, socer, vesper; ager, cancer, liber, magister - there
are probably a few others). I've seen these divided into "strong" and
"weak" depending on whether the vowel before the -r disappears in the
oblique cases:
STRONG WEAK
vir viri ager agri
viri virorum agri agrorum
viro viris agro agris
virum viros agrum agros
viro viris agro agris
vir viri ager agri
Padraic.
>Luís Henrique