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Subject: Somewhere came from Somewheres ? ---- unawares, amongst, betwixt
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 >>>    > Does the dropping of the final S go back to Greek or Hebrew?

Crossposted to sci.lang, where people might know the answer.
               Is there a natural tendency for languages to lose final 
syllables or final consonants?  <<<



-----------  Why is this thread  named   [Somewheres]  ?

           is there a suggestion that ...
                Somewhere  came from Somewheres ? --- (Dropped S)

                                       i think Not !

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/somewheres


i thnk the  -s in  Somewheres    is  old, and the same as in

Forwards
Backwards

Outwards
Inwards
Upwards
Downwards
Homewards

Sideways

Besides ?

Unawares ?


‎forward + ‎-s → ‎forwards
‎downward + ‎-s → ‎downwards
‎alway + ‎-s → ‎always
‎sometime + ‎-s → ‎sometimes
‎betime + ‎-s → ‎betimes
‎while + ‎-s → ‎whiles
‎betide + ‎-s → ‎betides
‎toward + ‎-s → ‎towards
‎beside + ‎-s → ‎besides
‎evening + ‎-s → ‎evenings
‎unaware + ‎-s → ‎unawares


‎among + ‎-st → ‎amongst
‎mid + ‎-st → ‎midst
‎while + ‎-st → ‎whilst

betwixt

against
alongst
amongst
beknownst
midst
unbeknownst
whilst
whomst