From: elmeras2000
Message: 27292
Date: 2003-11-17
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
[Jens:]
> >while Ge'ez has -u (-u:) in 6-10, but not in 3-5,
>
> Except 8 (sama:ni).
Sure, I guess Ge'ez unreduced -i(:) will be to Arabic -in what Ge'ez
unreduced -u(:) is to Arabic -un. I didn't phrase that too well, I
see.
>
> >and Akkadian has -u in all except 7.
>
> I don't think so. The Akkadian feminine forms are:
[...]
> All the non-construct nominatives end in -u(m), as is the case in
the
> masculines [...].
Well, very good. It's not what Grande's Semitic survey gives, but it
is nice that there are no great problems in it, although I
considered it irrelevant to my purpose anyway.
Jens