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Old 20-05-2003, 10:56 PM
Iris Cohen
 
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If a personal name ends in a consonant (except -er) then a termination of
two "-i-"s must be added for the proper genitive.

I got that one, but please explain Cedrus libani. It is not a person's name,
but why didn't they call it libanensis or libaniana?
Iris,
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