Re: [tied] Re: final -s, IE

In Portuguese there is also vestiges of nominative in names, Carlos, Domingos, Marcos, Paulos (archaic, recorded at XVIIth century; modern: Paulo)

In Slavic the final -s is dropped *-os > -U, but I dont know the intermediary steps.

Joao SL

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From: Richard Wordingham

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Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 3:36 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: final -s, IE

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao" <josimo70@......> wrote: > In Romance there is not a real s-drop: Romance languages abbandoned the nominative -s, and adopted accusative -m. Does anyone know how long the nominative/accusative distinction survived in Italian? I suppose we should mean Tuscan. The distinction was still there in Old French, and is probably reflected in names like _Charles_ and _Jacques_. > The real s-ending are seen in Accusative Plural, e.g. Latin caballo:s, Portuguese/Spanish cavalos, French chevaux (<chevals). > In Italian -s>-i (caballo:s>caballoi>caballi) ... I think that change is restricted to monosyllables. In the 1pl, Latin -mus > Italian -mo. > and in French almost all final consonants are dropped. As in Slavic, so is this -s drop or not? Richard.