Re: [tied] Slavic peoples and places

The Czech -ov is the same possessive suffix as Russian -ov/-ev.

By the way, neuters do not have -ov ending in gen.pl. As for "hard"
masculines, beside -ov, they also have zero ending in gen.pl (-a stems).

Andrei

At 6/9/01 10:18 AM +0000, tgpedersen@... wrote:

>I recall from a Czech phrase book for tourists something like:
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>"Personal" adjectives:
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>-úv, -ová, -ovo (masculine), eg. Karlúv most (´ should be a circle)
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>-in, -ina, -ino (feminine) , eg. Libus^in hrad
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>Is the former related to the Russian "hard" masc.-neutr. gen. pl.
>ending -ov?
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>Torsten
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