Re: USAGE: What gender is _Wikipedia_ in German?

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:27:18 -0400, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
wrote:

> As for my idiolect, "Wikipedia" is a proper name, but _wiki_ [vi:kI]
Odd. I have the exact opposite vowel pattern /wIki:/ for that kind of
website.

I have something like /wIki_x'pi:dIj@/ for the name of that site.

I imagine it's properly /wiki/ in Hawaiian, isn't it?

Oh, and the question originally posed, but for Thagojian? It'd fit very
nicely into the -ia/-ua declension, which are mostly biologically female
or inanimate nouns. Thus:

Singular
Agentive:   uikipedia
Patientive: uikipediam
Oblique:    uikipedai

Plural
Agt: uikipediaz
Pat: uikipedianz
Obl: uikipedavi




Paul

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