>>>Where does the _a_ in _skagg_- forms come from?
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>> 'o' becomes 'a' sometimes because of an irregular a-umlaut
>> its supposed to be across the board but tends to occur only rarely (because
>> im not sure if i like it or not)
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>It sure messed up the declension tables even more, so I tend to like it. :-)
lol thats one of the reasons i left it
>>>Another thing: I take it 'til' is a preposition? Why does it take
>>>dative case? It takes genitive in Icelandic. (Dunno about Faroese,
>>>though.)
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>> its actually just there to help distinguish the acc. from the dat.
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>Where does it derive from, then? It confused me a bit.
>
>And I suppose it would not be a problem if the acc and dat where
>indistinguishable from some words -- it happens in Icelandic, too.
'til' is just like 'toward'
and 'að' in the "øy" table is the same as 'at'