[Just a Little Taste of Judean]

Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
> He gave me a few different nouns in Latin with their declensions, so he=
re
> are the Judean evolutions:
> (i hope he didn't leave out marking the Latin long vowels)
Bad news.  He did leave out marking the long vowels, and got at least one=
 word
in the wrong declension.

> Latin Nominative (singular genitive, plural genitive)
> =
> "manus" (mani, manorum)
This is not a second declension noun, it's a fourth:

  "manus" (manu:s, manu:m)

> =
> "puella" (puellae, puellarum)
  "puella" (puellae, puella:rum)

> =
> "pons" (pontis, pontum)
  "po:ns" (pontis, pontum)

> "casa" (casae, casarum)
  "casa" (casae, casa:rum)

> "pectus" (pecti, pectorum)
This is third declension, not second.

  "pectus" (pectoris, pectorum)


(it is a coincidence that "orum" was correct here.  -orum is not the endi=
ng
for this declension, it's just -um.  But the stem is pector-.)


> And that's so far the possible beginning of Judean....any questions?
> comments?
Cool changes, but you need a better Latin advisor, I'm afraid!  I wouldn'=
t
mind someone checking up on my corrections, too, cause they're from memor=
y and
intuition; I don't have my books handy to check myself, and there might b=
e
some errors (a:rum sounds right to me but I'm not totally sure about it, =
for
example).

It is a rule in Latin that vowels are always long before -ns or -nf, as i=
n
"po:ns."  (but not "pontis")

The rules for forming Latin genitives are quite easy, by the way, and the=

dictionary form of the word usually gives the nominative and genitive sin=
gular
anyway.  So buying yourself a cheap Latin dictionary and learning which
plurals go with which singulars will probably solve your problem right th=
ere.

NOM SING GEN SING    GEN PLUR
  -a      -ae         -a:rum   <--somebody check me on these long
-us/-er   -i:         -o:rum   <--vowels, OK?
   ?      -is         -um
  -us     -u:s        -u:m      <--and this ending?
  -e:s    -ei:        -um

Look at the stem used to make the gen sing (may be different from the one=
 in
the nom sing, as in po:ns, pontis!) and use that for the gen plural too.

That should get you through all the regular declensions. :)

Ed


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