Re: Words for "ordinal 2" in Germanic languages.

On 2008-09-18, Craoibhin66@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Sep 18, 12:34 am, Adam Funk <a24...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I suspect that Dutch and German developed their distinct ordinal words
late --- is this correct?

Well, I tend to suspect the same. Icelandic has "annar", i.e. a
cognate of "ander-" and "other", and all other Scandinavian languages
have AFAIK cognates of this.

Is it plausible that the Norse influence in England discouraged OE
from developing something like tweede/zweite?


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