LL-L 'Morphology' 2006.07.08 (06) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 08 July 2006 * Volume 07
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From: 'Marcel Bas' <roepstem at hotmail.com>
Subject: LL-L 'Morphology' 2006.07.07 (05) [E]

Mark wrote about Afrikaans plurals:

>Along another line we have the embarrassment of a saying we share with the
>Dutch in ABN, 'Vir 'n appel en 'n ei' - 'for an apple & an egg, e.g.
>dirt-cheap': But in Afrikaans the word for egg singular is eier, (egg plural
>in ABN), whereas egg plural is 'eiers', a construction, I believe, all our
>own.

But a tricky one is this Afrikaans word: _eiwit_ 'protein', and not _eierwit_.
This is just one of those fossilized words, because 'yolk' is _door_ or
_eiergeel_ in Afrikaans.

Best regards,

Marcel.

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