Re: [tied] A truncated snake

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

> The old consonant/i-stems (Latin class III) often retain the
> nominative form in Romanian. E.g. frate < frater (not fratrem which
> would have given *fratre), [...]

Actually, _if_ the phrase "Torna, torna, fratre!" very often quoted
by scholars belongs to (Proto-)Romanian, one could drop the "*"; but
at least for PBR, the word "fratre" seems undoubtfully atested.

> oaspe < hospes (not hospitem, which would have given something like
> *oaspete).

It gave. In fact, Romanian knows both forms (oaspe, oaspete).

Regards,
Marius Iacomi