[Tlhingan-hol] list of inherent plurals
David Trimboli
david at trimboli.name
Tue Dec 6 12:40:54 PST 2011
On 12/6/2011 3:36 PM, De'vID jonpIn wrote:
> These are the inherently plural word pairs I have in my lexicon:
>
> DoS - ray'
> Sup - jo
> peng - cha
> vIj - chuyDaH
> qempa' - no'
> jengva' - ngop (De' jengva' - De' ngop)
>
> I also have:
> lolSeHcha
> 'eDSeHcha
>
> (I have no singular forms listed for these.)
>
> Are there any others?
There is also the odd case of {chuvmey} "leftovers (grammatical term)."
Unless there is an unattested noun {chuv}, this word seems to have a
{-mey} that is inseparable from its stem.
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SuStel
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