Re: ON Grammar

At 4:41:44 PM on Thursday, September 17, 2009, Edgar Widlund
wrote:

> Hi folks,

> In lesson 8 of Norse Course in the declension of the noun
> Himinn the text renders this noun in the indefinite
> genitive plural as himnum. I Believe this might be
> incorrect because um is the dative indefinite plural.

Yes, <himnum> is the indef. dat. pl.

> Shouldn't this be something like  himra ?

The indef. gen. (and accus.) pl. is <himna>. The basic
ending is <-a>, so you might expect *<himina>, but the
unstressed second vowel is lost, making <himna>.

Brian