Talk:־ס

I now see that Steffen Krogh ("Zur Diachronie der nominalen Pluralbildung im Ostjiddischen"), while agreeing that the main origin was Hebrew, rejects the Low German influence with the argument that there was "never any mentionable degree of language contact" between it and Yiddish. Such contact did exist, however, in north-western Poland and in the cities all along the Baltic coast up to Latvia. To be sure, the dialect of East Prussia, while High German like Yiddish, had a strong Low German ad- or substratum and made ample use of the s-plural as well. In any case, the use of -s specifically after -er, -em, -en is so strikingly similar to Low German that coincidence seems all but ruled out (though Low German additionally uses -s after -el). 92.218.236.20 15:00, 13 August 2024 (UTC)