servera'

[Harold D. Baker]

I am answering as a non-linguist, but it seems to me that the plural
stressed -a ending for 1st dec. masculine nouns is often found in nouns
displaying _polnoglasie_, full vocalization (gorod, golos, bereg, etc.). It
also occurs in nouns without _polnoglasie_ but with a similar disposition
of two vowels (kuzov, poias, kater, etc.). Finally, there is a group of
loan words resembling this (doktor, nomer, master, pastor, sviter, shuler,
etc.). _Server_ seems to be a new addition to the final group.

>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

Harold D. "Biff" Baker
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