Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > > > But I thought OHG had no plurals in <-s>,
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> > > No, but PIE did, so they the must have been abolished it at some

time.

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> By the way, I thought that the OHG representative of the IE o-stem
> plural, i.e. <-a:>, was the regular outcome of PGmc *-ôz < PIE *-ôs,
> while OE <-as> and OS <-os> represented the outcome of a PIE *-ôses,
> which occurs sometimes as Vedic <-a:sas>. In any case I've never
> heard of any stage of German having auslaut <-s> in the nominative or
> accusative plural of IE o-stems.
>
> Andrew
>

Or for that matter in the plural forms of _any_ nouns in OHG - I don't
think German ever had <-s> in native nouns.

Andrew