Re: [tied] Re: Germanic nominal declensions

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> >
> > (5) Some IA-speakers brought the bad habit of the
> extra -es with
> > them to Thuringia, where they continued their
> habit in their newly
> > acquired language (Proto-West Germanic).
> >
> > "IA" meaning Indo-Aryan (= Indic)?? Or do you mean
> "(Indo-)
> Iranian"?
>
> II, of course, you're right. But there were
> Indic-speakers on the
> Maeotic Sea too.
>
> >Trouble
> > is, this extra *-as was used in Avestan and
> Sanskrit, but not, to my
> > knowledge, in younger forms of Iranian or Indic,
> and certainly not
> in
> > "steppe Iranian", which had completely new (NE
> Iranian) plural
> markers.
>
> But who knows what the Dandarii (> *dandri- >
> *dani(r), the extra
> syllable staving off umlaut?) spoke? Or their
> plurals?
>
> Torsten

*****GK: I haven't followed this thread. But what I
read here seems ominous. Are you flogging the ground
again Torsten? (I say ground because the horse bones
have long since crumbled into dust. Come to think of
it are there even thongs left on the whip?....) *****

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