Mōtung:Georgiaware

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Brūcend:Hogweard How will be simply "Georgians" in Old English? Jaqeli (mōtung) 21:02, 21 Blōtmōnaþ 2015 (UTC)

That is a good question to which there is no simple answer. Several nations have a simple, distinctive form, such as Engle ("English"), Dene ("Danes"), Pulgare ("Bulgarians"), even ylve ("elves"), with no recorded singular form. In these cases the dative is to replace the "'e" with "-um" and the genitive with "-a". Others have the regular musculine plural with '-as', as in Francas, Gotas, Finnas and swa forþ. These all star with the name of the tribe or nation though.

Otherwise one may use a suffix -þēod or -folc (both singular) or -ware (plural). I frequently mix them around even in the same article, to match the eclectic manner of Englisc usage.

King Alfred's Orosius refers to the nation east of the Don known in Latin as the 'Albani' and says they are known in Englisc as the Liubene: I suspect this is an error and the Caucasian Albania may be confused with the Illyrican Albania.

Hogweard

(mōtung) 12:21, 22 Blōtmōnaþ 2015 (UTC)

Brūcend:Hogweard So "Georgians" in plural would probably be what? Georgiscas? Jaqeli

(mōtung) 20:17, 22 Blōtmōnaþ 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps 'Georgiaware'. (-isc is an adjective ending and if used as a noun it still behaves as an adjective, but Englisc is people-centred: the nation has a name before it has an adjective.) Hogweard

(mōtung) 13:28, 23 Blōtmōnaþ 2015 (UTC)