Re: [tied] Re: final -s, IE

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:03:25 +0000, aquila_grande
<aquila_grande@...> wrote:

>In Scandinavian s-endings are actually not dropped, but changed to -
>in most cases.
>
>The genitive in -s is kept.

The Germanic gen. in -s comes from *-Vso/*-Vsyo. Final *-s
always became *-z and then was either lost or became *-r.


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