Re: [tied] English Young (was: Indo-Iranian Vowel Collapse)

Richard Wordingham wrote:

> a) The singular derives from *kalba-m or *kalba-z - both neuter and
> masculine thematic plurals are know from Old English.

Of course the es-stem nom.sg. *kalb-az is indistinguishable from these
two in OE. Are you sure about the neuter thematic plural? It would be
*<c(e)alf>, but as far as I recall the only neuter plural in OE is
<c(e)alfru> (beside strong masculine <c(e)alfas>).

Piotr