Re: [despammed] Re: Sarah's language.

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 4:55 pm, bnathyuw wrote:
>  --- Joe <joe@...> wrote: > On Tuesday 14
> January 2003 5:27 am, Nik Taylor
>
> > wrote:
> > > Garth Wallace wrote:
> > > > I was taught that the first declension was
> >
> > -us,-i and second was -a,-ae.
> >
> > > It is.  The label "-o declension" refers to
> >
> > Proto-Indo-European.
> >
> > No, it isn't.
> >
> > The first is -a,-ae, and the second is -us,-i
>
> i've seen various orders used, altho the commonest was
>
>
> 1 -a- ( -a, -ae ) |puella|
> 2 -o- ( -us/-um, -i ) |seruus/templum|
> 3 -i- or - ( -is/e/C, -is ) |ciuis/animale/urbs|
> 4 -e- ( -es, -ei ) |res/?spes|
> 5 -u- ( -us/-u, -us ) |manus/cornu|
>
> ( i hope i've got 4 and 5 right ! )
>
IIRC, 4 and 5 are the other way round...

Sorry, I'm being incredibly pedantic ;-)

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