Re: Word used more than once

Andreas Johansson wrote:

>Quoting João Ricardo de Mendonça <somnicorvus@...>:
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>>On 5/20/06, Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:
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>>>Probably for the same reason Standard English lost the historic
>>>nominative "ye", preserving the object "you".  And, for that reason, why
>>>some dialects use "them" instead of "they" or "me" instead of "I" and so
>>>on.  The object form seems to be the one to win out when case is lost in
>>>English pronouns.
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>>Like Western Romance languages, which take their plural forms from the
>>Latin accusative. So Latin filias (acc.) gave Spanish hijas and
>>Portuguese filhas (no case).
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>Unless I very much misunderstand, they also got most of their singulars from the
>accusative. Nom. sg. _filius_ ought've given **_hijos_ in Spanish, not _hijo_,
>which rather comes from acc. _filiu(m)_.
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Interestingly, in French this is one of the few singular forms that
comes from the nominative: <fils> - [fis], from filius, I think.