Double Plurals (was: Germanic nominal declensions)

Where do the Modern Early* English double plurals, such as 'toeses' and
'pocketses', come from?

Richard.

*Early, as in early life, e.g. Early English _bickie_ 'biscuit' - Jerome K.
Jerome, 'Three Men in a Boat'.

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] Germanic nominal declensions


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> (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"?
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.
>
> Piotr