Re: Personal adjectives (was: Fruitful typos (was: Vulgar Latin))
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 24, 2000, 19:42 |
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At 07:35 +0100 23.1.2000, Raymond Brown wrote:
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>Shakespearean, Miltonic, Shavian are all well established.
I wonder, is the change of final -w to -v- before -ian in any sense "regular"?
Would an invention by a person named Crow be "Crovian"? Would Kew give Kevian?
And what about names in final -gh? Does Leigh give Leighian or Leighan or
something else?
As for our Mr Cowan the Latinate adjective pertaining to him is Sanguinarian!
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...>
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