irrregular plurals (2)

[Waruno Mahdi]

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