-mēs
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mes"
Old High German edit
Suffix edit
-mēs
- First person plural suffix. Used after a noun ending in a vowel, paralleled by the subjunctive Gothic suffix -ma affixed with the non-singular suffix *-(e)s, *-(o)s. Used in the sense of hypercharacterizing the plurality of the desinence.
References edit
- Erika Langbroek, Arend Quak, Annelies Roeleveld, Paula Vermeyden: Amsterdamer Beitrge Zur Lteren Germanistik, Volumes 61. Rodopi, 2006, p. 29.