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SUMMARY
‘On the Icelandic Dative Forms meiru, minnu, fleiru, and fleirum’
Keywords: historical morphology, adjectives, pronouns
This paper is an observation prompted by Margrét Jónsdóttir’s paper on the relics of an
earlier inflection of comparative adjectives in Modern Icelandic in vol. 32 of Islenskt mál
(2010). In Modern Icelandic, the dative forms meiru ‘more’, minnu ‘less’, fleiru ‘(sg.) more
(numerous)’, and fleirum ‘(pl.) more (numerous)’ appear as variants beside the more com-
mon dative forms meira, minna, fleira, and fleiri, respectively. The forms meiru, minnu,
fleiru, and fleirum appear to have the endings of the strong (indefinite) adjectival inflection
instead of the expected endings of the weak (definite) inflection proper to adjectives in the
comparative (meira, minna, fleira, fleiri). In addition, the form fleirum could be explained
as an archaism, as it is consistent with the form used at an earlier stage of the language. In
this paper, it is pointed out, however, that these forms need not be attributed to the strong
adjectival inflection, nor does fleirum have to be explained as an archaism. Instead, these
forms may all have arisen under the influence of the pronominal inflection.
Helgi Skúli Kjartansson
Menntavísindasviði
Háskóla Islands
Stakkahlíð
IS-105 Reykjavík, ÍSLAND
helgisk@hi.is