Re: Personal adjectives (was: Fruitful typos (was: Vulgar Latin))
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 24, 2000, 18:38 |
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At 22:44 +0000 23.1.2000, And Rosta wrote:
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>& if so, would the adjective stem be _andrevin-_, based on the genitive,
>giving English _Andrevine_ /'&ndr@vaIn/?
No, the adjective to your name is certainly Andant!
(Andean is already taken! ;-)
Of course the real adjective to Andrew is Andrean -- Andreas being first
declension masculine in Latin.
Now, am *I* Philippian, Philippic or Philippine?
Certainly not Benedictine! :-)
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...>
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