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Re: Origins of Welsh (and/or Brythonic) plural suffixes
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 7:20 am
by Linguoboy
MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 6:59 pm
This is all very interesting, but isn't it easier to predict the singular using the plural than the reverse? Like with French adjectives?
I don’t think so. Note, for instance, how
-a is added to both broad final consonants and to slender consonants with de-slenderising. How would you predict which it was? And going by the model of
gadaí-
gadaithe, you’d predict *
tí for the singular of
tithe.
Re: Origins of Welsh (and/or Brythonic) plural suffixes
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2020 6:59 pm
by circeus
Modern Welsh rejoices in between eight and twenty different methods of plural formation, dependant on the speaker, dialect and analysis. Frankly, this is ridiculous and is more a reason that my native language needs to have a little word with itself than any whingeing about mutation or "not having words for yes and no".
I might have cackled loudly upon reading this XD