borrowing pronouns

[David L. White]

Steven Schaufele wrote:

> Not to mention the entire 3rd-plural paradigm in Modern English,
> borrowed from Old Norse to replace the inherited WGmc. forms which had
> become indistinguishable from sing. forms.

    That's only borrowing (in the usual sense) if the languages were
mutually incomprehensible.  That it occurred at all suggests that they
were not.

                                                        DLW