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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Collier" <petecollier@...> > It's a conundrum.I could "cheat" and make some drastic changes to the > phonological development, but wheres the fun in that? Also moves it all > away from the OHG, which I want to keep as much as possible. Natlangs also cheat when they run into such trouble. If two forms lose their distinctness, try to steal a form from another case where ambiguity is less likely, or built a new form out of a circumlocutory phrase. Let's assume you don't like the fact that the nom. pl. and gen. sg. of Gall "rooster" look the same (Gäll? Gälle?). Maybe people began to use a possessive pronoun construction to augment the genitive: *galli suum rostrum > Gällse Ruster. Ta-da, your new genitive form is now Gällse. Anyway, ambiguity of endings is not such a bad things, especially across declension boundaries. The noun ending -e in Italian can be singular or plural, depending on the word. No problem with that. Oh, and Krauer is indeed a cool word. Pfi nulls Äuers hat, hat Krauer. :D -- Christian Thalmann