Re: Middle English Plurals

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> > 08-01-04 12:44, tgpedersen wrote:

> Nice example, but rendered invalid by the example of High German,
> which took the opposite (yes, not just different) path, to the

point

> of abolishing plural -s after <-en>, <-el>, <-er> (Dutch and Low
> German kept it), making the ones of those plurals that are not
> umlauted unpractically homophonous with the singular.

Different starting point! The strong masculines didn't normally have
a plural in -s.

> BTW I think I read that
> Yiddish, in spite of being otherwise very little influenced by Low
> German, uses s-plurals.

Hebrew superstrate? The Hebrew feminine plural ending, -a:th, is -os
in Yiddish.

Richard.