Re: the bee

>In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" wrote:
>
>>Not always. For instance if rom. "potârniche" is a derived
>>of Latin quoturnix (is it?) then the "cs" has an "che"
>>in Romanian.
>
>It is not. *quoturnic(u)la > potârniche, with usual reduction
>of the nexus /kl/.

even in that case: those derivations usually occurred
not via nominative, but via accusative; quoturnix will give
quoturnicem. (These things and the "casus obliquus" were
discussed on Jan 25; cf. message no. 18061.)

> Marius Iacomi

George