From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 62821
Date: 2009-02-05
> But of the nouns that end in -er in the plural in German, only a fewby
> are original s-stems (e.g. Kalb-Kälber, Lamm-Lämmer); German has
> greatly expanded the number of nouns that end in -er in the plural
> taking this ending from the original (all neuter) s-stems' pluraland
> introducing it to the plural of neuter nouns that originally had anouns
> plural form identical to the singular (e.g. <wort>). This was
> probably done in order to make the plural forms of these neuter
> more distinct. The ending also was transferred to some masculineMänner.
> nouns that originally were identical in the plural. e.g. Mann-
>Oops, that rings a bell, you're right of course.