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

German -en is a regular weak noun plural ending.
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Newton
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:56 PM
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,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>