From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 44214
Date: 2006-04-09
>Well, *vi:rere 'by poison' doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G&P@...> wrote:
> >
> > >>> (3) exceptionally in <vir>.
> > >> What would cause such an exception?
> > > Great frequency of use, most likely.
> >
> ... and we've got vi:rus i, poison, which is surprisingly neuter.
> Of course it's a rhotacism of wi:sos and originally a neuter type
> genus generis. But why has the word adopted the inflexion of a
> masculine thematic?