Re: Danaans [was Poseidon]

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:22:46 -0000, tgpedersen@... wrote:
>
> >(a similar example: the masculine, oblique form of the Dutch

definite

> >article used to be "den". It was abolished also in the written
> >language in the 1930's, except for two cities: Den Haag

(s'Gravenhage)

> >and Den Bosch(s'Hertogenbosch), since cities rarely are

(grammatical)

> >subjects (expressions like "Den Haag says..." are metaphorical).
>
> I have no official confirmation, but my guess would be an "allative"
> (= acc.): <naar den Hage/Bosche>, cf. Istanbul < eis ta:n poulin "to
> the city". On the other hand, both constructions are originally
> genitives: <(de)s graven hage> "the count [of Holland]'s hedge",
> <(de)s hertogen bosch> "the duke [of Brabant]'s forest".
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

or locative <in den Haag>, etc. Thank you for taking the trouble etc.
I know. The point I was making had to do with why a language that
otherwise chose *t in an alternating *d/*t paradigm in this case
would choose *d-. The Dutch example was ment as an illustration.

Torsten