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Re: Numerals Re: Re: Agglutinating -> inflecting

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
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

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John Cowan <cowan@...>