Re: [tied] Double Plurals (was: Transhumance)

At 6:13:26 PM on Wednesday, January 7, 2004, Richard
Wordingham wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer
>> <mcv@...> wrote:

>>> Masculine o-stems in West Germanic had either
>>> generalized the nom. form *-o:siz (OE -as, OS -os) or
>>> the acc. form *-anz (OHG -a, OLF -a).

>> How does one arrive at *-o:siz; it looks like a "double
>> plural"? I am much reminded of Latin Eud-os-i "Jutes?".
>> Is *-o:siz PGmc?

> It's PIE nominative plural *-o:ses, also seen in Sanskrit
> -a:sas and some Iranian forms. I think we discussed it
> last year.

Mid-July, subject 'Germanic nominal declensions'. (That's
from saved copies of part of the discussion, so I don't have
the message numbers.)

Brian