Re: Word used more than once

Andreas Johansson wrote:
> 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)_.
Indeed, though proper names often preserved the nominative, e.g., Carlos
< Carolus, not *Carlo < Carolum.  To the best of my knowledge, common
nouns were always from accusative (although in the feminine nouns, the
nominative and accusative merged early on)

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