Re: [tied] Re: Numerals query again + Ge'ez forms

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:47:23 +0100 (MET), Harald Hammarstrom
<haha2581@...> wrote:

>Nevertheless, to keep the post on topic. I looked up my Thomas
>O. Lambdin _Introduction to Classical Ethiopic_ (an absolutely
>brilliant book btw) to cite some forms for Miguel et al:
>
> Masc.: Fem:
>nom.: sab'atú sab'ú
>acc.: sab'atá sab'ú
>
>Masc. nom. has a common variant form sab´a:tú and there you
>see that Lambdin transliterates a for the vowel that corresponds
>to Ar. a and a: for Ar. a: etc. The stress placement is from the
>Ethiopic tradition rather than comparative data (the source is
>likely to be E. Mittwoch, _Die traditionelle Aussprache des
>Äthiopischen_, Berlin 1926).

Does the book say anything else relevant to the question?

Is nunation attested in Classical Ethiopic? Does the final -u in the
numerals (and also in some pronouns and verbal endings) go back to -un, to
-u: or simply to -u?

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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