Re: [tied] Transhumance [Re: etyma for CrXciun]

From: Harald Hammarstrom
Message: 29191
Date: 2004-01-07

> > Northern Middle English uses s-plurals, as far as I know?
>
> Everybody used -es plurals (< OE masculine -as) in Middle English.

I was under the impression that -s plurals in modern English were
due to French influence!? Does the Dutch -s plural also have an
indigenous progenitor?

thanks
Harald