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From: ags@pucc-h (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Derivation of `Moscow'
Message-ID: <2747@pucc-h>
Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 09:20:27 EST
Article-I.D.: pucc-h.2747
Posted: Fri Mar 28 09:20:27 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Apr-86 07:34:06 EST
References: <337@aero.ARPA> <12564@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: ags@pucc-h.UUCP (Dave Seaman)
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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In article <12564@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@brahms.UUCP (Matthew P. Wiener) writes:
>In article <337@aero.ARPA> solomon@aero.UUCP (Steve Solomon) writes:
>>About Moscow, the Russian name is `Moskva' in the nominative singular. I
>>think I know how we got `Moscow' and my argument is based on the
>>genitive plural. Here goes. Somehow the name was declined in the
>>genitive plural, which is in cyrillic MOCKOB.
>
>Somehow?  That is the expected declension.  

Why is genitive plural the expected declension?  It is much more normal
to use nominative singular for importation into other languages.  I assume
that was the reason for the "somehow."
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Dave Seaman	  					pur-ee!pucc-h!ags