User talk:Jpbrenna/Ossetic grammar

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Sorry for commenting in your draft.

Бæхи хæццæ is a Digor form (D). And хæццæ in it is usually considered a postposition, not a case (and they say there is no Comitative in Digor). The Iron form of this case is бæхимæ (bæx-imæ).

They also usually show not only declination for one word, by rather for two or three (those ending in a vocal have slightly other declination; as in Adessive теуа-й-ыл, not теуа-ыл, etc.). Slavik IVANOV 23:08, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I will put a not in on the comitative: my source had it asterisked, but it wasn't clear what he meant by that. Perhaps it exists, but is moribund? This is the case with the dative in Modern Greek -- it still has one, but only in certain fossilized expressions.

It's just nether used in Iron and a usual way to say with something in Digor, but in Digor it's not a case, but a postposition with Genitive: bæx-i xæccæ. Slavik IVANOV

I don't quite understand the second part of your comment. Do you mean that Ossetic has a dual and trial grammatical number, or that we should use other nouns as examples too?

There are at least two possible declination paradigmas: for the words ending in a vowel and for the words ending in a consonant. Slavik IVANOV

Thank you for adding the Cyrillic spellings -- I am incapable of typing in Cyrillic, and my knowledge of the alphabet is still a bit hazy. I wonder if you could perhaps add them in the approrpriate places in the table? In fact, I wonder if you could double-check my recent transliteration in a table at the unrelated squire article? I'm not sure if I got it exactly right. --Jpbrenna 06:13, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

I wonder, how should we format the table to make it yet beuatiful having so much information in it (Digor/Iron, Cyrillic/Latin, Vowel-ending/Consonant-ending)?.. Do you have any ideas? Maybe we'd do several tables?.. - Slavik IVANOV

I think there should be a way to incoporate Cyrillic and Latin side-by-side, but I don't have the expertise. --Jpbrenna 05:32, 1 October 2006 (UTC)