LL-L: "Morphology" LOWLANDS-L, 04.MAY.2000 (01) [E]

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From: Stephen E Israel [sisrael+ at pitt.edu]
Subject: "Morphology"

> From: Mike Adams
> Subject: -s, -es, -en suffix/plurals
>
> I know from memory that Oxen is the last remnant of an old germanic form
> for the plural.. Related likely to how man becomes men. I know in German
> to do a plural it is often -en


Actually, the -n of children and brethren are two other examples just
barely hanging in there.

Stefan Israel
sisrael at imap.pitt.edu

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From: 3181SAFF [3181SAFF at london-oratory.org]
Subject: LL-L: "Morphology" LOWLANDS-L, 03.MAY.2000 (05) [E]

> I know from memory that Oxen is the last remnant of an old germanic form
> for the plural.. Related likely to how man becomes men. I know in German
> to do a plural it is often -en

As does child/children

Andrew Saffrey

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