Re: [tied] alb. gji (breast)

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From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] alb. gji (breast)


> hehe, that is fine. If the accusativ doesnt match we take then the
nominative. Some posts before Miguel answered to me that it is true, in Romance the accusative form of Latin are inherited not the nominative forms.

It's occasionally the other way round with _consonantal stems_. Sorry, life is sometimes messy. Yopu can't always predict the direction of analogical levelling-out.

> The accusative form forn nomen is nominis:-)

Well, it isn't. In Latin, the acc. of <no:men> was ... <no:men>. If you mean "the oblique stem", yes it was <nomin->.

> Should it be too difficult to bypass Latin?:-))

Not bypassing it is the simpler and safer course. If you take a long and serpentine road instead, Occam may be waiting for you round one of those bends, razor in hand :-).

> Don't you find curious that just the noun snake is inherited but no another word like: serpenti-gena, serpenti-pes, serpirastra, serpo, serpullum?

Not at all. It often happens that the base survives in isolation and the old derivatives are lost (it also happens the other way round).

Piotr