Re: Probability of Article Replacement?

Andreas Johansson wrote:
> "zd" was a slip of mind - I meant to write _hadz_, _hadzen_.
>
> I assume "it seems reasonable" applies to the entire development I sketched,
> not only the derivation of _hadz_, _-en_?
Right.  "This one man" -> "the man" seems quite plausible.  Altho,
"these many men" seems a little odd to me (unless "many" was the normal
way of indicating plural?).  Perhaps the -en was just from analogy with
other plural adjectives?  Did the obsolete article have a
singular/plural distinction?

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