Arabic-L:LING:Cross-gender usages

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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Date: 27 Feb 2001
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Cross-gender usages

Makes perfect sense to me:  elephants have HUMONGOUS ears.

                                         Mike Schub
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Date: 27 Feb 2001
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Cross-gender usages


Also:  in the  9a:rabiyyah,  the plural of 'udh(u)n  is  'a:dha:nun

["ears"].  Your dialect is something else.  {dual for plural}

                                               Mike Schub

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