What is Relatedness?

Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv at wxs.nl
Sat Jan 29 17:01:14 UTC 2000


"Steve Gustafson" <stevegus at aye.net> wrote:

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

Frisian (at least as spoken in the Netherlands) has no plurals in
-r- at all, not even in cases where Dutch still has -eren.

The Frisian plural ends in either -en or -s, with a few irregular
cases of -ens and zero (ko, pl. kij "cow(s)", skiep "sheep", bern
"child(ren)").

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl



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