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SABRINA
Jul 30, 2008 6:50:48 GMT -1
Post by megli on Jul 30, 2008 6:50:48 GMT -1
Exactly. It shows that Old Welsh - or common neo-brittonic - very briefly had cases (probably just a nominative and a genitive, like Old French). They must have appeared and disappeared very quickly because the earliest Welsh poetry we have shows no trace of cases. There are only about three words in Welsh which show evidence of them, and this is one (another the preposition 'erbyn', 'against', which is in origin 'ar', 'opposite, facing' + an oblique case of 'pen', 'head'.)
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