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

> >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?

I'll check when I get home. But speaking of which, I had the pleasure once
to study Old South Arabic for Prof. Jan Retsö. Neither nunation nor cases
are attested there (which is not the same as saying the case vowels didn't
exist because they wouldn't have been in the writing anyway). The forms
(sabaic) for seven is entirely undramatic with sb3t and sb3 respectively.

all the best,

Harald