Re: [tied] Re: Apollo

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 9636
Date: 2001-09-20

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:51:28 -0000, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

>2. Early Slavic **prAusAi would yield Slavic N. pl. **pruxi2, G. pl.
>**pruxU > (Standard) Old Russian N. pl. **prus'i, G. pl. **pruxU (and
>probably Polish **pruszy, **pruch)

Old Polish. Modern Pol. would be **prusi, **pruchów (it is in fact
Prusacy, Prusaków, The country name is Prusy, Prus [pl.]).

BTW, Piotr, why are names in -o declined the way they are
(Kos'ciuszko, Kos'ciuski, etc.)???