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Re: EAK nouns

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Date:Sunday, May 13, 2007, 8:12
Hallo!

On Sun, 13 May 2007 08:34:33 +0100, R A Brown wrote:

> Philip Newton wrote: > > On 5/12/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote: > > > >> For example the nominative χοή (drink-offering) is retained > >> in the adjective χοηφόρος (offering χοαί to the dead); > > > > (Shouldn't that be "offering χοάς to the dead"? > > The definition "offering χοάς to the dead" was taken from the Lewis & > Short Lexicon. > > > Or, if you're going > > with English case-[and-number-]marking, "offering χοήs to the dead"?) > > But we don't, do we? We just use the foreign nominative. For example we > might say "There were a lot of fungi in the wood this morning", but few, > I think, would say "There were a lot _fungorum_ in the wood this > morning" :)
This sort of thing was actually common in the speech of educated Germans some time ago. Latin loans were declined Latin-wise. It no longer is, though. ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf

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