Using Dictionaries (was Re: Greek question (night?))

[Rick Mc Callister]

HMMMM.
Portuguese also has /-u/ but spells it <-o>
True, it does have <quem> /ke~, kay~/ "who"

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>It was rather the accusative forms that survived.  You can't tell
>the difference in the Western Romance singular (-am > -a, -a: >
>-a; -um > -o, -o: > -o; -em > -e, -e > -e), but Romanian and
>Sardo have -u (< acc. -um) not -o, and the plurals are clearly
>accusatives [but nominatives in Eastern Romance -e, -i]: -as,
>-os, -es.  The ablatives would've given -is, -is, -ivos.  A form
>like Sp. quie'n "who?" < quem also betrays its accusative roots.
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