Re: The last enemy

From: andrew <hobbit@...>

> 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? I thought
maybe a Latin 3rd declension i-stem, el fin/la fin, el mar/la mer, thing going
on. But "mors" is feminine is Latin and (granted I don't know Catalan,
Romanian, Langue d'Oc, usw.) remains so in the Romance langs. It's masc. in
German, but...? The morph. seems Romance-based. Just thought: maybe like
Russian, stuff that ends in a consonant is masc. But "gas" is fem. So I wonder.
Please to explain.

Kou

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