Re: Nouns for things that occur in pairs
| From: | David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 25, 2008, 2:09 |
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Eric:
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I should have been less ambiguous. What I meant was: a marking used
for *single* parts of a pair, not the pair itself.
>>
The only example I'm familiar with didn't have marking, per se.
Rather, if something belongs to a set that naturally came in
twos, then the plural is treated as a feminine singular. This is
Arabic, and it goes for eyes, legs, hands, arms, etc.
-David
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