Re: Number
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 7, 2004, 17:48 |
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Hallo!
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 19:25:12 -0500,
Matthew Kehrt <mkehrt@...> wrote:
> How do your various *langs partition number?
Germanech has singular (unmarked) and plural (marked with -s,
or -es if the word ends in a sibilant).
Old Albic has singular, plural and vestiges of a dual, which is
only used when referring to a matched pair. Inanimate nouns
receive the suffixes -im for plural and -um for dual.
Animate nouns form the plural by changing the stem-final vowel
to -i and the dual by changing the stem-final vowel to -u.
(Animate nouns always end in vowels, which in the singular
indicate gender: masculine -o, feminine -e, epicene -a.)
Greetings,
Jörg.