Prefixed / proclitic plurals

[Urmas Sutrop«]

Dear colleagues,

there is a small closed group of words with prefixed plural
marking in Estonian:

see ‘this’
need ‘these’
n-ee-d
PL-this-PL

too ‘that’
nood ‘those’
n-oo-d
PL-that-PL

tema (ta) ‘he, she’
nemad (nad) ‘they’
n-ema-d (n-a-d)
PL-s/he-PL (PL-s/he-PL)

Yours sincerely,
Urmas Sutrop
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Dr. Urmas Sutrop
Director
Institute of the Estonian Language
Roosikrantsi 6
EE-10119 Tallinn
ESTONIA

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