[tied] Re: final -s, IE

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "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 exception is that the accusative case has become the universal
> singular form.
>
> The origin of the present ending -(e)r, is from the ending of the

2.

> and 3. person present -r. Why the ¨3. person also had ending -r is
> somewhat obscure, probably the 2. person ending -r was transfered

to

> 3. person too. If so the present ending ultimately originates from
> the -s of the 2. person.

Te same thing happened in Northern English, which is why 3rd sg. now
has -s instead of -th. Makes one wonder if a substrate language used
*so for third instead of second person.

Torsten