irrregular plurals (2)

Waruno Mahdi mahdi at FHI-Berlin.mpg.de
Fri Feb 9 15:56:00 UTC 2001


It just occurred to me that something similar to the situation with pairs
of Arabic loans in Indonesian Malay is perhaps English _medium_ - _media_,
which is only a singular/plural pair (as the Latin etymon pair is) in a
narrow range of contexts.

Both have also been borrowed in Indonesian Malay (same spelling) where they
do not form a singular/plural pair in any contexts (unlike English).
--  Waruno



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