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--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Padraic Brown <elemtilas@y...> wrote: > Yeah. You've got a relic of the -e declension > there. Question is: have any words been drawn > into it by analogy, or is dziej singular in its > declension? > > Kerno, too, has its share of inherited -e words - > but it has far more that have migrated due to > analogy. Hehe. Jovian does exactly that with Latin e-stems, -êus/-êa/-êum words, and by stress shifts, -eus/-ea/ -eum in general. Just a few days ago, I considered merging all current -iju/-ija/-ijun nouns to this declination class as well. That would produce some unexpected results such as |fé| "son/daughter", |fawé| "family", |sangré| "sangría" and |coffedré| "cafeteria". The lack of distinction between "son" and "daughter" should be sufficiently offset by the Modern Jovian usage of articles, e.g. |a fé| [@'ve] "a daughter", |u fé| [@'fe] "a son". -- Christian Thalmann