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

 --- Joe <joe@...> wrote: > 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 ;-)
no prob. i couldn't remember

bn

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