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kataba eamoniski: | --- In westasianconlangs@yahoogroups.com, "Isaac Penzev" <isaacp@...> | wrote: | | > Bad idea. | > 1) why to retain Greek ending -os? | | 2 reasons: the Central Cappadocian Greek does it (agglutinating the | case and plural markers directly to the -os ending; Ah, that's interesting. | and Armenian does | it in words of Greek origin which have the -os ending [the genitive of | ovkianos "ocean" would be ovkianosi]). I see. It may be good for an occasional borrowing, but how well will it work in a mostly Greek lang? | I think in some Armenian words with origin in Greek masculine nouns in | -os, they drop the -os entirely (kiwr from kyrios), My dictionary lacks the word "kiwr". The word for "lord" is _tér_ (with regular change é > i in oblique forms: _tiroj_ etc.) | > 2) in Armenian, case endings follow the plural suffix: banvor 'worker' - | > banvori 'worker (G.)' - banvorner 'workers' - banvorneri 'workers (G.)' | | You're absolutely right, my bad. I'd have to check my notes, but I | believe the Cappadocian Greek adds the plural to the case suffix. A | revised version of my original scheme (using Armenian ovkianos) would | then be: | | Direct: ovkianos ovkianosner | Oblique ovkianosyu ovkianosneryu Well, that is better, imo. Don't forget there are other types of declension in Armenian, as you could see on tér : tiroj example. Most words in -i get -u in G. (aygi - aygu 'garden'), old -n stems get -an (muk - mkan 'mouse') etc. Notice regular change u > @ in the latter. Another example of regular vowel alteration: i > @ (gir 'writing' > grel 'to write'), uy (iw) > u (huyn 'Greek' - hunakan 'adj.'). The word _huyn_ seems related to Arabic _Yuna:n_ (Old Arm. _y_ often gives _h_ in Mod.Arm.: Hisus, Hovhannes) which in its turn comes from _Yawn_ "Greece' from probably _Io:n(ia)_. What about using adj. suff. -kan, and calling the lang *Yeghinakan (old "l" > "gh": Ghukas, Poghos). | Thanks for the input, | Eamon You are welcome, -- Yitzik