Re: Plurals via reduplication in Japanese (was Re: Adopting a plural)

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:25:45 -0400, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
> Aren't there also some small number of plural nouns in Japanese formed by
> reduplication? They're fossils, but certainly existent, or so the
> conversation went. I swear that not too long ago on this very list
> somebody (but I fail to recall who) posted a short list of them. I think
> it was actually to do with /h/ ~ /p/ ~ /b/ and the sound changes that made
> them what they are. The examples were showing that the sound change only
> happened in initial (or was it non-initial?) position. One example was
> habipabi or huriburi or something. Damn, I wish I could remember it better.
hito "man" ~ hitobito.


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