[Spellyans] SWF questionable wordforms

[nicholas williams]

Notice also mar myn ov descans servya BM 524.

I wonder whether dyscas, descas is not simply a variant of descans;  
cf. mernes for mernans 'death', and bewnes, bewnas, bownas, bounas for  
bewnans 'life'.

Nicholas


On 17 Sep 2008, at 10:27, Jon Mills wrote:

> In the case of 'dyskas', we have no plural attested.
> Pascon agan Arluth: dyskas
> Ordinalia: deskes; dyskes; thescas; thyskes; tyskes
> However, one might posit a plural, '*descosow'.

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