Re: 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"?

II, of course, you're right. But there were Indic-speakers on the
Maeotic Sea too.

>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.

But who knows what the Dandarii (> *dandri- > *dani(r), the extra
syllable staving off umlaut?) spoke? Or their plurals?

Torsten