From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 27332
Date: 2003-11-17
> I beg your pardon but I don't see why Rom. could loose the las syllableThe word was moved to the major masculine declension (as if from *nepo:tus).
> "-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?