>Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> wrote:
>I remember reading somewhere that some languages have a special
>marking for nouns for things that normally occur in pairs. What do
>you call this phenomenon? Is it an example of grammatical number (and
>if so, what is that number called?) And does anyone how those
>markings evolved?
On this subject, I have a word in Senjecas "gaqtos" which means one of
a pair. The trouble is that I can't think of a situation in which it
might be used! BTW, the word is from the proto-Dravidian lexicon.
Charlie