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...I never knew hibus existed...
If indeed it did, then it must be archaic. The classical dative and ablative plural forms of hic are represented by his. Might hibus be an early Old Latin form of that (from a hypothetical Proto-Italic *hekbos)?
 
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Might hibus be an early Old Latin form of that (from a hypothetical Proto-Italic *hekbos)?
Yes, it is. Forcellini says there's an instance in Plautus: Curc. 4. 2. 20.

...nor have I ever seen huiius before, either, which I have to assume might be an archaic form of huius?
It's just a way of spelling. It's known that j was doubled in pronunciation between vowels (hujus, major, etc.), and this was occasionally reflected in spelling.
 

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It's just a way of spelling. It's known that j was doubled in pronunciation between vowels (hujus, major, etc.), and this was occasionally reflected in spelling.
What might that sound like? Who-ee-yoos, mah-ee-yor??
 

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Yes, it is. Forcellini says there's an instance in Plautus...
Not that Forcellini demands any verification, but upon looking back at the demonstrative pronoun section in Allen & Greenough today, I read a tiny bit of text to the effect that: "For the dative and the ablative plural the old form hibus is sometimes found." (the text doesn't overtly state "Old Latin", but such seems to be implied) Funny how you can scan over that type of statement on a first reading, somehow thinking it irrelevant. Relevance always seems to assert itself in the fullness of time...
 
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I actually didn't know that hibus existed until @Pacifica mentioned it recently ... I remember laughing at a friend of mine for misconjugating the dative/abl. plural of hic to hibus. She obviously didn't get any points for that :D
 

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I was thinking: since hic as an adjective is 1/2 decl., the fact of the older form being hibus seems to indicate that it either was once irregular, or otherwise might have once declined as 3 decl., which has -ibus as the abl./dat. plural inflective suffix.
 

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The i's are consonantal, the words are disyllabic. Probably, something like [ˈhui̯.jus].
Consonantal and disyllabic, I understand. But I think I'll have to stick with [ ˈhui̯.jus ], since I don't know the sound of [ i̯ ].
 

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That's non-syllabic [ i ] like y in boy, which is a bit different from y in yes. I guess Allen would transcribe it as [huyyus]. Never mind IPA, it's just double y in the middle.[/I]
 

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That's non-syllabic [ i ] like y in boy, which is a bit different from y in yes. I guess Allen would transcribe it as [huyyus]. Never mind IPA, it's just double y in the middle.[/I]
Now that makes sense! Thanks for clarifying!
 
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