Re: Feminization of plurals?
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 10:21 |
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On 2009-02-11 Edgard Bikelis wrote:
> there are some plural neuters from latin that
> entered in portuguese as feminines
There are many collective neuters the
plural of which ended up as feminine
singulars in all or most Romance
languages.
Grandgent cited FRIGORA
MARMORA RURA. This collective -A was
also extended to some masculines and even
to some non-first declesion feminines:
It. _dita, frutta, fusa, grada_, Old
French _crigne_ < *CRINEA < CRINES,
Sard, Apulian Rumanian _frunza_ <
*FRONDIA < FRONDES.
Hasn't it been suggested that *-h2
originally was a collective and/or
abstract ending in the first place,
and that neuters in pre-PIE didn't
have a plural?
/BP
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