servera'

[James Augerot]

On Mon, 13 Nov 1995, John Dingley wrote:

> Perhaps I am missing the obvious, but why should the Russian
> for a (computer) server have an -a' plural, i.e. servera'?
> Are we simply dealing here with an example of "technical/
> professional parlance", or are there other factors at play?
>
> John Dingley
>
Follows a pattern well established in Russian from older golosa`,
berega`.', through uchitel'a`, professora`, of penultimate stressed
masculines shifting to final stressed -a` plurals. Many words such as
l'ager' have both plurals today with an occasional specialization of
meaning.
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