Re: [tied] Germanic nominal declensions

Well, I haven't read the original text (yet -- I have it on order), a literal translation of the bit that Peter provides is:  "an -a, which is followed by a nasal, is kept..."  That seems to say the same thing.  As for whether it makes linguistic sense, I don't know.

 

Andy Howey

P&G <petegray@...> wrote:

>>>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 urspr�nglich
ein Nasal folgte, erhalten bleibt, ..."
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Peter



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