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

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> 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

Aha......that was maybe a good explanation, thank you:-)))
BTW, how do you expect PIE word should have evoluated in Rom. after the
known soundlaws of this language?

Alex