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Re: Feminization of plurals?

From:Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 17:56
Den 11. feb. 2009 kl. 04.07 skreiv Adnan Majid:

> I was wondering whether anyone knew of other examples in natural > languages > where the plurals of neuter/object nouns take on some sort of > 'feminine > singular' persona, so to speak. I'm thinking of incorporating such > a feature into my Latin/Greek based conlang. Has anyone tried this > before?
Just for the record, I'm doing it in Azurian, as the phenomenon is common in the Scandinavian languages, Azurian being one. LEF