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--- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@hidden.email> wrote: > --- Adam Walker skrzypszy: > > > I'm currently leaning toward C-a forms nozu/-a. > What > > think ye? > > I agree with Christian, that -u and -a for plural > forms seems odd. I would > suggest nozi/-e and vozi/-e instead. > Not possible in C-a since /e/ and /i/ merged early on in final position (as did /u/ and /o/). 'Sides that would make "we" the only pronoun exclusivle available in nueter gender. I should mention that vos- is a formal form of 2nd person. > But to be honest, I don't see the point of > distinguishing gender in this case. > Even the Slavic languages, who distinguish gender > whenever they can, don't have > feminine personal pronouns for other persons than > the 3rd. Polish (just to give > an example) d�es make a different in the attached > verbal forms, however. For > example: ><snip Polish examples> <unicode alert off> > > Now that you mention it, I have never been > particularly satisfied with the > Wenedyk 1st and 2nd persons plural, _nosz_ and > _wosz_. I am considering > changing them to _nu_ and _wu_, at least in the > nominative. _nosz_ and _wosz_ > could then stay as accusatives. > > Jan Latin NOS could drop the final |s| and become |nu| which is homophonous with |nu| meaning "no" and thus might feel the pressur to re apply the -s to mark plural giving |nus| which feels like a masculine plural (and might give rise to |nas| for all-female groups. OR Latin NOS could add a gender marker to nos before the |s| drops to make nosu > nozu which would then "necessitate" noza as a female alternative like in Spanish. OR Latin NOS could compound with ALTERUM to give |nozaurru\-a| as the C-a results. OR Latin NOS could simply survive as |nos| which might seem neutral enough not to spawn a feminine and could retain the |s| as a precieved plural marker from the get-go. It would make a strange word, but not impossible. Adam ===== Fached il prori ul pa�eveju mutu chu djul atexindu. -- Carrajena proverb