[tied] Re: vulgar Latin ?

From: fortuna11111
Message: 21404
Date: 2003-04-30

Here too a lot of diminutivals from Dacia until Iberia.
> Are they indeed to explain trough a diminutival form?
> Tusculum, Nerulum, Trossulum, Vesulus, Batulum, Brundulus, etc.
> Seriously now, is there just a simple coincidence this suffix "-ul"+
> "um/us"?


Hi Alex,

I don't quite get it how explaining the -ul's as articles would help
much.

Evelina