Re: Finno-Ugric languages
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 21, 1998, 4:59 |
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Charles wrote:
> I'm having trouble coming up with a good short morpheme
> for "people" (trying to base it on Latin/IE). I like
> "vir" for male persons, "fem" for female, but the
> best-so-far for both (epicene?) is "pern" or "dem",
> which really won't do. Hmm, maybe "sav" ...
How about "gen" from latin _gens_, people/race (as in Spanish "gente")
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