It would be li gupils/le gupil, most likely (with the plural inverted)
Tom Send a noteboard - 24/03/2013 05:16:13 AM
I still find it fascinating that Old French still had declension, so you can see phrases like li fiz le rei, where the fact that the second word is in the oblique means that it's genitive, just like "fiz a putain" shows la pute in its oblique form.
However, the Marie de France form that I saw was just le gupil.
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Les Lais by Marie de France
- 22/03/2013 08:37:20 PM
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Re: Les Lais by Marie de France
- 22/03/2013 10:47:54 PM
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The lai I previously read in the Old French textbook had different spelling.
- 23/03/2013 02:57:15 PM
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Re: The lai I previously read in the Old French textbook had different spelling.
- 23/03/2013 05:20:24 PM
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It would be li gupils/le gupil, most likely (with the plural inverted)
- 24/03/2013 05:16:13 AM
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Re: The lai I previously read in the Old French textbook had different spelling.
- 23/03/2013 05:20:28 PM
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I could add that comte in Old French was li cons
- 27/03/2013 02:48:45 AM
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Re: I could add that comte in Old French was li cons
- 27/03/2013 03:33:30 PM
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It was both, sort of.
- 27/03/2013 06:08:00 PM
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