Re: [tied] Scythian tribal names

Yes, there is: in modern Iranian languages. Yaghnobi has nom.pl. -t < *-ta, and Yaghnobi as well as Ossetic have agglutinative plural endings consisting of -t- + case marker. This -t- derives from older -ta-. Also in Sogdian the endings of the plural cases derived from the collective suffix *-ta- with feminine sg. case inflections.

Piotr

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From: george knysh

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Subject: Re: [tied] Scythian tribal names

****GK: Is there also an Iranian plural indicator which simply consists of a "t" without the "a"?****