Re: German question

Quoting Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>:

> Hallo!
>
> Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > Quoting Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>:
> >
> > > > [Peenemünde]
> > > >
> > > The real oddity is that double -ee-, no? Is peen(e-) a Baltic word,
> perhaps?
> > > or some no-longer-used German spelling?
> >
> > Double vowels aren't very common in German spelling, but it's not hard to
> find
> > examples: _See_, _Saal_, _Moor_, _Moos_, _leer_.
> >
> > Examples with high vowels don't seem to be found (*_ii_ would be writen
> _ie_, I
> > suppose,
>
> Yes.
>
> >       but I can see no particular reason *_uu_ shouldn't occur).
>
> I cannot recall any German word with |uu|, either.
Maybe something to do with the use of |w|<|uu| for /v/?

> > Note that doubled umlauted vowels are not accepted; _Moos_, _Saal_
> pluralize as
> > _Möse_, _Säle_.
>
> _Säle_, yes, but the plural of _Moos_ is _Moose_.  (_Möse_ is a rude
> word for a particular body opening, BTW.)  But |ää|, |öö| and |üü| are
> indeed forbidden.  We leave that to the Finns and Estonians ;-)
Hm. I appear to've misread my Duden; it says "Moos ... [pl] -e u. Möser".

                                                Andreas