Re: [tied] Re: Germanic nominal declensions

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 24583
Date: 2003-07-16

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:10:45 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>'Horn' is neuter. Isn't this a nom./acc. pl. ending -a? (Danish still
>sg. 'horn', pl. 'horn')

Germanic continues -a: in the n.pl., which would have given Runic -u (ON
-0). Come to think of it, I don't think any of the dual endings fit
either: *-oh3 would also have given -u, and *-oih1 > *-ai > Runic -e, I
guess. So the only interpretation I can follow is <horna> as NA n. sg.


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