Re: [tied] Germanic nominal declensions

From: P&G
Message: 24637
Date: 2003-07-17

>>>whereas
> >> -- an -a that follows a nasal survives."
> Hmm, I misread that as:
>whereas
> an -a that PRECEDES a nasal survives.
> ...although I'm not altogether sure if perhaps it was Streitberg who
> miswrote. As it stands, it makes no sense.

Well spotted! What Streitberg actually wrote was "ein -a, dem ursprünglich
ein Nasal folgte, erhalten bleibt, ..."
My fault! Me a cowboy, me a cowboy, me a Mexican cowboy!

Peter