Cosǎ

[M. Þ. Réitschar]

I noticed on the wiki that the spelling 'Cosǎ' is accepted. Was there an arestreda I missed, I don't remember this in the 2007/2010/2011 ones? What am I missing?

[Ián B. Anglatzarâ]

Sept 7, 2014 4:07:44 GMT -6 M. Þ. Réitschar said:

I noticed on the wiki that the spelling 'Cosǎ' is accepted. Was there an arestreda I missed, I don't remember this in the 2007/2010/2011 ones? What am I missing?

That must surely be a misprint for Cosâ, the traditional pre-2007 spelling.

[M. Þ. Réitschar]

No, It says 'formerly Cosâ' after it says 'Cosǎ', take a look wiki.talossa.com/Cosa

[Magniloqueu Épiqeu da Lhiun]

Sept 7, 2014 4:20:16 GMT -6 Ián B. Anglatzarâ said:

Sept 7, 2014 4:07:44 GMT -6 M. Þ. Réitschar said:

I noticed on the wiki that the spelling 'Cosǎ' is accepted. Was there an arestreda I missed, I don't remember this in the 2007/2010/2011 ones? What am I missing?

That must surely be a misprint for Cosâ, the traditional pre-2007 spelling.

it is not. It has been resolved by a recent Arestadă, that A breve is accepted as that which was formerly an A circumflex, which itself used to be an A breve, a long time ago. This spelling contrasts with that, which the Arestadă styles “modern orthography”, where A breve is not used at all. The function of this letter, which is still used in the “traditional orthography”, is to indicate that a word ending in -a is, in fact, a femininum.

Cf., if you speak it, to the Arabic “Tā’ marbūṭah” (ة), which has roughly the same function and is pronounced like an “-ah” in absolute coda position.

[Sir C. M. Siervicül]

Epic's right. The â (a-circumflex) character from pre-2007 spelling was actually originally ă (a-breve) up till the mid-90s, but Ben switched because his word processor at the time couldn't handle breves. The CÚG recently resolved to un-abolish the breve on an optional basis, due to advances in computer character support over the past 20 years. So it's actually Cosă (with a breve) rather than Cosǎ (with a caron), though Cosa and Cosâ are also acceptable.

Note that the traditional -â/-ă ending was mostly used with feminine nouns and adjectives, but not exclusively so.

[Ián B. Anglatzarâ]

Sept 7, 2014 4:51:05 GMT -6 Sir C. M. Siervicül said:

Epic's right. The â (a-circumflex) character from pre-2007 spelling was actually originally ă (a-breve) up till the mid-90s, but Ben switched because his word processor at the time couldn't handle breves. The CÚG recently resolved to un-abolish the breve on an optional basis, due to advances in computer character support over the past 20 years. So it's actually Cosă (with a breve) rather than Cosǎ (with a caron), though Cosa and Cosâ are also acceptable.

Note that the traditional -â/-ă ending was mostly used with feminine nouns and adjectives, but not exclusively so.

I sit corrected.