Re: [despammed] Re: Sarah's language.
| From: | bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 15, 2003, 16:55 |
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--- 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 ! )
i seem to remember they were always referred to by
paradigmatic words, examples of which i've given. so
rather than saying, oh yes, |fortuna| is a first
declension noun, we'ld be told, |fortuna| goes like
|puella| . . .
i always thought it would be sensible to arrange them
alphabetically : |puella, res, ciuis, seruus, manus|,
and possibly add a seperate group for consonant stems
like |urbs|
bn
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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre
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