Re: Queranarran description - comments?

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:25:56 -0800, JS Bangs <jaspax@...>
wrote:

> Quoting Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:
>
>> Quoting Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>:
>>
>>
>> > Singular                        Plural
>> >
>> > Nom.    nima                    niman
>> > Acc.    nima                    niman
>> > Voc.    nimey                   nimanis
>>
>> Isn't there supposed to be universal saying that the vocative is the
>> simplest
>> form of the noun? Well, universals were made for breaking ...
>
> Broken by natlangs, as well. Slavic fem. voc. in -o, and Romanian masc.
> voc. in
> -e both are not the simplest forms.
Broken semi-archaicly in English too, with the enclitic "o(h)".





Paul