Re: 3rd declension -us neuters (was Re: Worse Greek 102 (...))

On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:24:58 +0100 =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Rhiemeier
<joerg.rhiemeier@...> writes:
> Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> writes:
>
> > Of course in Vulgar Latin it is quite clear that there was a drift
> of
> > commonly used 3rd neuters to the second declension, e.g.
> >
> > LATIN      FRENCH  SPANISH   PORT.   ITALIAN   ROMANIAN
> > tempus,     temps   tiempo   tempo    tempo     tempu
> > temporis
> >
> > corpus,     corps   cuerpo   corpo    corpo     ??
> > corporis
> >
> > Fraid I don't know the Romanian for "body".  Only French retains a
> memory
> > of the Latin -us neuter.
>
> And Germanech as well:
>
> corfs, pl. corfres "body"
> tzempfs, pl. tzempfres "time"
>
> What about other Romance conlangs?
>
> Jörg.
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Jûdajca (at the moment):

tempor, pl. tempôru (normal)
tempu, pl. tempî (construct)

colpor, pl. colpôru (normal)
colpu, pl. colpî (construct)


-Stephen (Steg)
 "nacàmû nacàmû, gammî..."