txakur/dzhagaru/cachorro....

[Eduard Selleslagh]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kreso Megyeral" <miskec4096 at hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 10:25 PM

>> I'm no specialist and I don't know what was the vulgar latin or the early
>> romance word for milk on the Peninsula at that time, but my latin dictionary
>> gives "lacte, is" for milk (and "lac" as an archaic form). I think that
>> "lactem" then, would have been the accusative form (I have to rely on my
>> memory, though, since I don't have any Latin grammar with me :) ).

> It can't, since all the nouns ending on -e are still neuter in Latin.

[Ed]

I'd like to add that my (Dutch) Latin dictionary says 'lacte' is archaic, and
'lac' is the regular nominative in Classic Latin. Anyway, it is a neuter, so
'lactem' is impossible as you said, since all neuters have identical
nominatives and accusatives. But, of course, an accusative 'lacte' is possible.

It also says that it is derived from a root (g)lact-.

Ed. Selleslagh