What is it about?

It discusses OFris fule 'much, many' and shows that its stem-vowel is not found elsewhere in Germanic, but corresponds to Greek _polu-_

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Why is it important?

OFris fule 'much, many' highlights one of the language's peculiarities and shows the importance of including Old Frisian in comparative linguistics.

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Dr Rolf H. Bremmer Jr
Universiteit Leiden

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This page is a summary of: Old Frisian fule and felo "Much; Many", NOWELE North-Western European Language Evolution, June 2005, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/nowele.46-47.04bre.
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