From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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Date: | Wednesday, June 25, 2003, 11:29 |
Hi! Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> writes:> In my 'lect, _mannar_ is the pl of _man_ when it means something > like "underling". An officer's soldiers are his _mannar_, f'rinstance. It > would sound strange, to my ears, to use it as a vocative. > > I think German _Mannen_ has a similar distribution. Native Germanophones?Yes, exactly, I think. **Henrik
John Cowan <cowan@...> |