adjectives

Jim West jwest at Highland.Net
Tue Jun 9 11:36:25 EDT 1998


Thanks for the help.  My main interest is historical.  I am curious
specifically about how the masculine and feminine forms of the adjective
were compressed into one form.  So I offer the following reconstruction and
ask for any clarification you all can offer:

1- in the earliest stages, certain adjectives used both masculine and
feminine forms.  I.e., certain adjectives were used only of males and others
were used only of females.

2- at some point, adjectives which were only applied to males began to be
applied to females, and vice versa.

3- At some point this usage forced the case endings of the feminine form to
be abandoned in favor of the masculine form.

But why? 


Thanks,

Jim

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Jim West, ThD
Adjunct Professor of Bible
Quartz Hill School of Theology

jwest at highland.net




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