Re: [tied] Transhumance [Re: etyma for CrXciun]

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 29192
Date: 2004-01-07

07-01-04 09:46, Harald Hammarstrom wrote:

> I was under the impression that -s plurals in modern English were
> due to French influence!?

The *-a-stem masculine declension had OE -as in the nom./acc.pl.
(<wulf>/<wulfas>) It was continued as ME -es.

Piotr