What is Relatedness?

[Rick Mc Callister]

>Ed Selleslagh writes:

[ moderator snip ]

>Hasn't Frisian also generalised a plural in -ar or -er, which also
>corresponds with what Norwegian and Swedish (and formerly Danish) did?

	Can you elaborate a bit more on the -ar/-er plural?
While the English strong plural was -en,
there seems to be some relic forms with -r-; actually -ren
	e.g. child-r-en, eyren Middle English dialect plural for <eggs>
[unless the -r- of eyren was part of the singular stem and perhaps lost in
the presumed singular <ey>]

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701