Re: YAEPT: uu/ii (< Quick Latin pronunciation question)

Perhaps it is just an analogous borrowing of one of the German plurals,
standardised across "foreign words" as a category. (:
Eugene

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
wrote:

> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Lars Mathiesen <thorinn@...> wrote:
> > And by the way, vira /"vi:RA/ is the normal plural for (species of) virus
> in
> > Danish medical usage. _Pace_ Ray it's not pretentious, just conservative,
> as
> > the plural is now virusser in other contexts.
>
> FWIW, the German plural is "Viren", with the standard plural ending
> -en for many foreign words. (I wonder where it comes from; it surfaces
> also e.g. in Greek words such as "Museen" or "Analysen" and in Latin
> ones such as "Familien" and "-(i)täten".)
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
>