Thu May 22, 2014 7:31 pm
Guðen dag!
I have something to ask you. It's been troubling me for a while now and I would like to discuss it with you! Do you think we should include all three 3.pl. pronouns (masc. fem. neu. ) in Orkney Nynorn or have only one like in continental scandinavian, namely *tei [tai]/ *þei [þai]. We know that Orkney Nynorn grammar was simpler than that of Shetland Nynorn, so it may be that the three 3.pl. pronouns ran together + it seems a bit unnecessary to have three different forms when we have no evidence of their existence (my opinion).
Or should we keep them?
*Tei < ON þeir
*te < ON þær
*tou < ON þau
Mon Sep 08, 2014 7:09 pm
No, no dualis in Nynorn for sure, it's been not preserved by any modern Scandinavian language or dialect. We base personal pronouns 1,2p pl. on the old dualis, like Faroese and Icelandic:
http://nornlanguage.x10.mx/index.php?nynorn_gr#c1. Even though this is Shetland Nynorn, the same system is planned for usage in Orkney Nynorn, cf.
vee 'we',
vus 'us' in .