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Re: Dichotomies, trichotomies, polychotomies

From:And Rosta <a-rosta@...>
Date:Friday, May 24, 2002, 18:56
H. S. Teoh
> Quick terminological question here: > > I'm working on correlatives in my conlang ATM, and so far there are > dichotomies and trichotomies. I'm thinking about having a 5-prong 'chotomy > as well. What would the right term be? Pentachotomy? Pentchotomy? > Quintichotomy? None of them sound "right".
dichotomy, tritomy, tetratomy/tesseratomy, pentatomy -- stress is penTAtomy. --And.

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H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
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