From: alex_lycos
Message: 21247
Date: 2003-04-24
>> In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" wrote:Is not the Latin word "coturnix" ?
>>
>>> 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