From: alex_lycos
Message: 18051
Date: 2003-01-25
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From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: yellow
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:42:56 +0100, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
> wrote:
>
> >Do not forget please, almost all Romanian words which are "inherited"
> >from Latin, show a derivation from the accusative form of the Latin
> >words. What should it mean?
>
> That Romanian is a Romance language. Almost all Portuguese, Spanish,
> Catalan, Occitan, French, Italian, Rhaeto-Romance and Sardinian words
> are derived in the singular from the accusative sg. of the Latin
> words
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...
OK, but why from acusativ form ? It is not logicaly to derive from
nominative?