Re: Langmaker down since January?

I've only ever seen/written _chassin_, but the -er plural would seem
to conform to a tendency that foreign words take -er plural. Cf.
_historier_ and not _**historior_ from _historia_. I can't think of
any foreign word with an -ar plural, in fact.

2008/6/10, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:
> Quoting Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Mark J. Reed writes:
> [snip]
>> > And then there's "chassis", whose pronunciation changes in the plural
>> > even though the spelling doesn't...  gaaah.
>>
>> I think it's the same in German.
>
> Hm. I looked it up to see how its spelt in Swedish (turns out to be
> _chassi_)
> and found something surprising - it gives the plural as _chassier_, which
> sounds
> just plain wrong to my ears; I say /'x\asin/. It would probably be
> excessively
> sophistic to conclude _er_ spells /n/ here ...
>
>> And the adjective 'orange' is [?o:'RaNS] while the noun 'Orange' is
>> [?o:'RaNZ@].  The adjective has normal inflection, of course:
>>
>>       die Orange ist orange   [di: ?o:'RaNZ@ ?Is(t) ?o:RaNS]
>>       the orange is orange
>>
>> but   die orange Orange       [di: ?o:'RaNZ@ ?o:'RaNZ@]
>>       the orange orange
>
> In Swedish, I guess you have to spell the weak masc. sg /u'ranSE/ the same
> as
> the base form _orange_ /u'ranS/. The neuter _oranget_ /u'ranSt/ and
> fem./common/pl _orangea_ /u'ranSa/ are also funky.
>
> The fruit is _apelsin_.
>
>
> (I'm, incidentally, violently agnostic about the wider affiliations of the
> sound
> I here denoted /S/. It may or may not be to be identified with /x\/ or /s\/.
> The
> symbol chosen merely reflects my own phonetic realization in this lexeme.)
>
> --
> Andreas Johansson
>

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