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Re: QUESTION: types of plurals, few/many

From:Irina Rempt <irina@...>
Date:Thursday, June 20, 2002, 8:55
On Thursday 20 June 2002 10:12, Tom Wier wrote:

> So, presumably, you could have one word for "policeman", of which > the singular would signify the same as English "policeman", the > plural "policemen", and the collective "the police".
It works like that in Ilaini: _daysen_ "drop of water, raindrop", _daysin_, genitive _daysenin_ "drops of water, individual raindrops", _daysin_, genitive _daysinin_ "rain". The nominative collective plural is identical to the the normal plural, but the normal plural has -e- in all other cases, whereas the collective keeps -i-. Irina -- Vesta veran, terna puran, farenin. http://www.valdyas.org/irina Beghinnen can ick, volherden will' ick, volbringhen sal ick.