Re: [tied] Germanic nominal declensions

>>>whereas
> >> -- an -a that follows a nasal survives."
> Hmm, I misread that as:
>whereas
> an -a that PRECEDES a nasal survives.
> ...although I'm not altogether sure if perhaps it was Streitberg who
> miswrote. As it stands, it makes no sense.

Well spotted! What Streitberg actually wrote was "ein -a, dem ursprünglich
ein Nasal folgte, erhalten bleibt, ..."
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Peter