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broken plural

noun

Etymology

Calque of Arabic جَمْع مُكَسَّر (jamʕ mukassar).

  1. derived from جَمْع مُكَسَّر

Definitions

  1. An irregular plural formed by changing the pattern of consonants and vowels inside the…

    An irregular plural formed by changing the pattern of consonants and vowels inside the singular form, found in the Semitic languages and other Afroasiatic languages such as Berber. An example in Arabic is مَكَاتِب (makātib, “desks”), the plural form of مَكْتَب (maktab, “desk”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for broken plural. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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