[tied] Transhumance [Re: etyma for Crãciun]

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> > Northern Middle English uses s-plurals, as far as I know?
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> Everybody used -es plurals (< OE masculine -as) in Middle English.

All other

> plurals were irregular archaic survivals like Mod.E <children> or

<feet>.

> The Kentish plural <eyren> was NOT a regular plural, even in Kent.
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Which is my whole point. So: in what way does the spread of plural -s
in Middle English, supposedly not a creole phenomenon, differ from
the spread of, say, stem or infinitive forms in the present tense of
Afrikaans verbs, argued by some to be a creole phenomenon?

And how does the gender loss of O-Du/OE n.pl. <nestas> differ from
early Afrikaans: "Kenje die [not 'het'] Vieur in de buyk zuypen"?

Torsten