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Henrik Theiling skrev: > Hi! > > Benct Philip Jonsson writes: >> ... So perhaps analogical sg. _lenghe_ and pl. _ling_ or >> even sg. _lengï¿œe_ and pl. _lingo_? I hereby declare a >> referendum! :-) > > Ok! I like the spelling lenghe/ling most, although I don't > understand why the stem vowel changes. > It's the plural formation. Regular from -i: and -e:s > -i: of the second and third declension and then i-umlaut of the stem vowel. In the first declension umlaut plurals are probably analogical. The other place in the grammar where i-umlaut is notable is in the second person singular present indicative of the verb. There are also a- and u-umlaut, though the former is mostly not visible synchronically and the other affects only A: you will get _o, ua_ in masculine adjectives and nouns where the corresponding feminines have _a, ia_, likewise in the first person singular of verbs against the third person. /Bendetx