Re: Wenedyk - Nouns

 --- Jego skrzypszy:

> > Hmmmm... any specific reason you chose |-i| for the dative and |-u|
> > for the genitive?  Or is that a typo?  The Latin endings being -o
> > and -i respectively...
>
> In this case, those two forms -u and -i can be justified in two ways:
> - either it is the rather strong influence of the fourth declension (-us,
>   gen. -us, dat. -ui)
> - or those early Slavs could be blamed for messing up Latin -i/-u with their
>   own -u/-i :)
I forgot to mention one argument, which might be even more important than those
other two: influence from the Latin ablative. A large part of the different
meanings of the ablative shifted in Wenedyk to the genitive, so why not some of
its forms, too?

Jan

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