From: Padraic Brown (elemtilas@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat May 17 2003 - 09:23:40 EST
--- Anton Sherwood <bronto@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Isaac Penzev wrote:
> >> Why should you keep -u? In most natlangs
> >> those stems merged with -o-stems.
>
> Padraic Brown wrote:
> > Why not? Spanish keeps it (espiritu)
>
> That's obviously borrowed from Church Latin;
So what? Spanish is full of such doublets; I
doubt most Spanish speakers even know what an
esperdo is!
> the demotic equivalent would be _esperdo_, i
> think
>
> > as does Romanian.
>
> Does Romanian also have nouns in -o?
>
> --
> Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
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Passe lê tempeor po rizer; passe lê tempeor pois Ddé.
-- per tradicièn Niponor
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