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  • Hate to burst your bubble, Phoenix, but Burrow has something to say precisely about that in The Sanskrit Language, page 315: Hittite treats the 2 pl. in the same way (ten/teni) and here again Sanskrit expresses the difference in quite a different way (-ta/tha).

    The trouble with the PIE 1st & 2nd person plural endings 2008

  • "We got a cruiser of the Cat-teni navy asking permission to land."

    Freedoms Challenge McCaffrey, Anne 1998

  • Surely no Cat-teni had enjoyed the Eosian domination even if many, singly or in family groupings, had benefited by their loyalty to entities they had never before attempted to supplant.

    Freedoms Challenge McCaffrey, Anne 1998

  • "That's better," she said, smiling and then caught sight of the four Cat-teni just visible behind Zainal.

    Freedoms Challenge McCaffrey, Anne 1998

  • So that didn't leave just two fake Cat-teni to manage that big mother.

    Freedoms Challenge McCaffrey, Anne 1998

  • He strode to the front of the vehicle and she was able to close the hatch and just slide down the bulkhead to sprawl on the deck, exhausted by this battle with Cat-teni gravity.

    Freedoms Challenge McCaffrey, Anne 1998

  • Those only who speak good Cat-teni and are the right size will come with me; 'and his eyes flickered briefly at Kris.

    Freedoms Challenge McCaffrey, Anne 1998

  • Two Cat-teni vets -- one had both legs missing and the other was minus an arm -- managed the one -- get it the one eatery in Blizte.

    Freedoms Challenge McCaffrey, Anne 1998

  • "It is enough, since they think we go back for what was left," Zainal said and grinned, looking more like the man she knew so well than the very Cat-teni Emassi who had barked answers over the com.

    Freedoms Challenge McCaffrey, Anne 1998

  • My Cat-teni's good enough for that but I don't look the part.

    Freedoms Challenge McCaffrey, Anne 1998

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