Pluralis på svenska och tyska

Andreas skrev:

>Quoting "Douglas Koller, Latin & French" <latinfrench@...>:
>
>  > Andreas skrev:
>
>  > First: roughly 10% of Swedish nouns, common gender ending in "-a",
>>  plural in "-or". Three ending in a consonant are listed: "ros,
>>  rosor", "våg, vågor", och "svan, svanor."
>
>_Svanor_? If I encountered that in a text, my immediate reaction would be to
>take it as the pl of an unknown word *_svana_. The pl of _svan_ "swan" is
>_svanar_.
My dictionary gives both, with "svanar" listed first. I won't mess
with your native instincts, but it would appear the some Swede
somewhere at some time uttered "svanor", and it codified as
acceptable usage.

Kou

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