Re: [tied] All of creation in Six and Seven

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 27332
Date: 2003-11-17

17-11-03 19:43, alex wrote:


> I beg your pardon but I don't see why Rom. could loose the las syllable
> "-em". Usualy just the "m" should have been lost.
> Since "frate" has the "e" at the end one should have expected "nepote"
> too; there is no such form( beside vocative "nepoate") but there is
> simply "nepot". Agree?

The word was moved to the major masculine declension (as if from *nepo:tus).

Piotr