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Re: The last enemy

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Sunday, July 29, 2007, 0:43
Hi!

Douglas Koller writes:
> > In Brithenig: > > > Ill inifig yllif ke sera diruth es ill morth > > > def.masc enemy last rel be.fut.3s destroy.pp be.pres.3s def.masc death > > > I had all those words! > > Congrats! A question, though -- did a quick stroll through the > Brithenig website, but why not just go to the source? How does > "morth" end up masculine?
Would be interesting to me, too. In Þrjótrunn, the old nominative would be reconstructed as '*MORTIS' since the modern form is 'mörtur', obviously by analogy. It is 3rd declension: nom.sg. mörtur < *MORTIS acc. mort < *MORTEM dat. mörti < *MORTI gen. mörtur < *MORTIS nom.pl. mortir < *MORTES acc. mortir < *MORTES dat. mörtifur < *MORTIBUS gen. mort < *MORTUM **Henrik