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At 00:57 2000-12-29 +0100, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
This time I won't bother you with verbal paradigms (unless you want to, I stillhave a lot to show, especially about 4th and 5th conjugations verbs :) ).
You might always recap for us who don't have a clue how you ended up with one conjugation more than Latin has! 8^)>
Finally, there are also the words douem /dwE~/ and douêne /dwEn/ (same origin as dom and dône, but with the addition of a diphtongation. Personnally I think they come from a different dialect of "Roumant" than the main dialect I'm describing, and they were borrowed in the main dialect with different meanings than their counterparts).
Maybe the long forms were formed from the accusatives DOMINUM and DOMINAM while the short ones derive from the vocative singulars DOMINE and DOMINA. In Vulgar Latin the _i_ in -min- would be lost, giving DONNE, which may have been shortened to DON exceptionally early, with the short feminine back-formed from this shortened vocative masculine.
To this you may compare Italian _uomo_ with its irregular plural _uomini_.In Rumiyaan the vocative singular HOMO has developed into the 2d person pronoun _haam_, while the accusative HOMINEM > HOMNE > HONNE gave the noun _haanj_ /hAndZ/.
/BP 8^)>
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