Etruscans (was: minimal pairs)

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 08:59:41 -0000, "Douglas G Kilday"
<acnasvers at hotmail.com> wrote:

[B&vdM:]

>>An _ablative_ was formed by adding the gen. -s to the genitive. With
>>the l-gen. this gave -l-s, archaic -las (so the gen. -l is probably
>>from *-la).  This is the so-called double genitive.  With the gen. in
>>-s, that probably came from *-si, this gave *-si-s; syncope gave -s
>>with umlaut, e.g. -uis; -ais became -es.

>The ablative is *not* the so-called double genitive. This is a factual error
>on the part of B&vdM.

Yes, this is wrongly put.  It is *a* double genitive, but not *the*
double genitive, which is as you say (-s'la, etc.)

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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