Re: [tied] Germanic nominal declensions

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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Germanic nominal declensions



(5) Some IA-speakers brought the bad habit of the extra -es with
them to Thuringia, where they continued their habit in their newly
acquired language (Proto-West Germanic).

"IA" meaning Indo-Aryan (= Indic)?? Or do you mean "(Indo-)Iranian"? Trouble
is, this extra *-as was used in Avestan and Sanskrit, but not, to my
knowledge, in younger forms of Iranian or Indic, and certainly not in
"steppe Iranian", which had completely new (NE Iranian) plural markers.

Piotr