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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Christopher O'Regan</b>
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Glancing over the map of Axunai through the ages, I noticed a kingdom reappearing several times named "Losu." Now is it just me, or is that the name for an Almean moose? Is a losu its national animal or something?
<p>And, while I'm at it, the somewhat obscure topic of Xurnash and its cases: has the genitive merged with the accusative in Xurnash? I ask this because the two object forms I can identify in the Xurnash samples we have are <b>ri</b> and <b>shush</b>; these sound like they come from Axunaic <b>rir</b> and <b>shumish</b> rather than accusatives <b>ej</b> and <b>shum</b>. Or perhaps it is the nominative - sound changes have converted the <b>shuz</b> and <b>li</b> to the present forms. . .
<p>-regards
<br>Rhisto Filipei
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>1. I sometimes curse my decision to have both political borders and
labels in red. The kingdom's name is a bit hard to see; it's <b>Losuji</b>, named after the city you can see on the 1750 cities map. Losuji means "moose-ford" in Wede:i. (The Xurnese name of the city is Lozaush.)
<p>2. Hmm, I should get the Axunashin/Xurnash grammar online. Your questions
are both affected by errors in the sample in the LCK!
<p><b>Ri</b> isn't
the Axunashin 'thou'; it's a preposition, 'in'. It should also be <b>ray</b>;
it comes from Axunashin <b>ran</b>, of uncertain origin.
<p>'Province' is <b>shuz</b> in Axunashin, which became <b>shus</b> (not shush) in Xurnásh. You're quite right that the Axunashin accusative has
been lost-- though it sticks around in the pronouns. The genitive has
been reinterpreted as an adjectivizing suffix.
<p>Here's a corrected form of that sample sentence, with a word-by-word translation.
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<tr><td><b>Ir</b> <td><b>nevu</b> <td><b>jadzies</b> <td><b>mnoshudacij.</b> <td><b></b> <td><b>Toc</b> <td><b>shizen</b> <td><b>ray</b> <td><b>tos</b> <td><b>bunjachi</b> <td><b>shasik</b> <td><b>rili.</b>
<tr><td>my <td>niece <td>sculptor <td>date-3s-prog <td> <td>she <td>can <td>in <td>him <td>none <td>flaws <td>see
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<tr><td><b>Tos</b> <td><b>denjic</b> <td><b>shus</b> <td><b>bunji</b> <td><b>dis</b> <td><b>kezi.</b> <td><b></b> <td><b>Syu</b> <td><b>shacho</b> <td><b>cu</b> <td><b>shus</b> <td><b>izrawi.</b>
<tr><td>he <td>hope-3s <td>province <td>some <td>day <td>govern <td> <td>I <td>be-neg-1s <td>that <td>province <td>envy
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