Re: Personal adjectives (was: Fruitful typos (was: Vulgar Latin))

On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, And Rosta wrote:

> Boudewijn would, I hazard, have _baldovine_, which I find
> rather enviable. As for Irina, assuming that this is a variant of _Irene_,
> I wonder if one could have a reverse analogy of Venus:Cytherean, and derive
> the adjectival form from _pacis_?
You assume rightly: it's a Slavic form of Irene. As it is, "irenic"
and "irenaeic" both exist, and both have to do with peace (I don't
know the difference, and the dictionary that I think it's in seems to
be in storage, we're moving house in less than a month). I'd go with
"irenean" - "pacian" and any analogous thing I can think of sounds a
bit too placid for me :-)

> As for me, would the following be a valid irregular declension?
>
> Nom. Andus
> Voc. Ande
> Gen. Andrevis
>
> & if so, would the adjective stem be _andrevin-_, based on the genitive,
> giving English _Andrevine_ /'&ndr@vaIn/?
That makes me think that your name is "Andrew" (is it?)

   Irina

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