--- Piotr Gasiorowski <
gpiotr@...> wrote:
> 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
*****GK: Let's say (as a test) that I'm a Kyivan
traveller of the 12th century, interested in getting
information about Zoroastrian remnants (if any) among
the Ossetians. Would it be grammatically correct, for
that time, (we'll leave the security aspect out for
the moment(:=))) when I arrived at one of the cities
on the Donetz (say Sugrov' or Sharukan')[they were
Osseto=Alanic cities controlled by the Cumans] if,
wanting to ask about the identity of the people I was
interested in I translated my question "(Are you) the
Ossetians of Zoroaster?" as "... IRONT-I-ZARATHUSHTRA?"*****
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