Reconstruction talk:Proto-Brythonic/marxọg

@Angr, Anglom Would there not be i-affection in the plural? Also, where did the plural come from in the first place? —CodeCat 22:05, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

Only short vowels are affected by i-affection, and internal i-affection follows a chain effect, which would be blocked by the original long vowel. The plural isn't original, but it is old. It comes from early Brythonic *-jones, Proto-Celtic *-yones, plural of nasal stems plus suffixal -y-. The original plural would have given the same form as the singular, which is what lead to its replacement by more marked plural forms. Anglom (talk) 22:32, 13 September 2016 (UTC)