Re: [tied] 'coke' in Polish?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> > loan in -k# or -g# (m., obviously) which doesn't alternate where a
> > native word would?
>
> You should have better luck with Italian - see
> <http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Italian/Grammar/Italian-

Noun.html#Particularities>

> .
>
> Romanian has a special strategy to avoid softening the plural of nouns
> in -c - it used the neuter plural ending in -uri!
>
> Richard.

The plural in -uri is used just for neutra. One cannot make an plural
in -uri for a masculine noun as "butuc" but there is the regular plural
in "-i", thus with the soft "c^". Sg "butuc" pl. "butuci".

Neutra uses indeed the -uri as in "foc"-"focuri", "joc"-
"jocuri", "loc"-"locuri" etc.

Alex