Re: Germanic declensions?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Smith"
<mytoyneighborhood@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What is the (reconstructed I assume) Germanic nominative plural
> equivalent of the latin -i, such as occurs in tribal names such as
> Alemanni, Marcomanni, Marsi, etc.? In other words, what would tribal
> names such as these have been in Germanic?

-o:z before the reduction of unstressed vowels kicked in. The Romans
correctly identified the Germanic a-stems (masculine) with the Latin
2nd declension.

> Also, would the Latin -ones ending in names such as the Teutones and
> Semnones have been -aniz in Germanic.
>
> And finally, what would the Germanic nominative singular equivalents
> of Latin -us, -es and -is such as occurs in personal names have been?

-us = -az (rarely -uz)
-is = -iz

Richard.