[tied] Transhumance [Re: etyma for CrXciun]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:46:24 +0100 (MET), Harald Hammarstrom
> <haha2581@...> wrote:
>
> >> > 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?
>
> Yes. The situation in Dutch is different in that different

dialects are

> involved. Masculine o-stems in West Germanic had either

generalized the

> nom. form *-o:siz (OE -as, OS -os) or the acc. form *-anz (OHG -a,

OLF -a).


How does one arrive at *-o:siz; it looks like a "double plural"? I am
much reminded of Latin Eud-os-i "Jutes?". Is *-o:siz PGmc?

BTW can you equate Low Franconian linguistic influence with Frankish
political influence?


Torsten