
	Where results make sense

Topic: Plurale tantum

Related Topics

Religious pluralism

English plural

plural marriage

Plural marriage Latter day Saint

pluralism philosophy of mind

Plural Marriage LDS

Plural Marriage Mormonism

plural of virus

Plurality voting

Simple Plurality

plural quantification

single member plurality system

In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Twee meervouden die het niet zijn - Jan Stroop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In de naam mazelen komt tot uitdrukking dat de ziekte zich ondermeer en het opvallendst uit, doordat de huid een groot aantal vlekjes vertoont; het woord is meervoudig, maar met de kanttekening dat mazelen een plurale tantum geworden is: het enkelvoud waar het woord van gevormd is, masel (De Vries-De Tollenaere 1991, p.
		Mijn indruk is dat dat bij alle pluralia tantum alleen voor dit woord geldt.
		Mazelen, dat van oorsprong een geleed woord is, te weten het meervoud van een eenmaal bestaand enkelvoud mazel, heeft zich een tijdlang gedragen als een echt plurale tantum, wat zijn weerslag heeft gehad op de geografie van de allomorfie van het oorspronkelijke meervoud.
	www.janstroop.nl /artikelen/twee_meervouden.shtml (3234 words)

	English_plural (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Template:Fnb Dies is used as the plural for die in the sense of a mould; dice as the plural (and increasingly as the singular) in the sense of a small random number generator.
		Plurals of symbols and abbreviations Symbols and abbreviations whose plural would be ambiguous if only an s were added are pluralized by adding 's.
		Plurals of headless nouns Linguist Steven Pinker, in his book, The Language Instinct discusses what he calls 'headless words', typically bahuvrihis, like lowlife and Red Sox, where the life and sox are not heads semantically; that is, a lowlife is not a type of life, nor are Red Sox a kind of sock.
	www.news-from-newspapers.com /en/Wikipedia.org/2005/04/14/English_plural.html (2254 words)

	English plural - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Generally, plurals refer to several species or kinds of animal, while the unmarked plural is used to describe multiple individual animals; one would say the order of fishes, but five fish in an aquarium.
		Note that axes the plural of axis is pronounced differently from axes (/ˈæksɪz/) the plural of axe.
		Dies is used as the plural for die in the sense of a mould; dice as the plural (and increasingly as the singular) in the sense of a small random number generator.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/English_plural (3245 words)

	wiki/English plural Definition / wiki/English plural Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The plural morphemeIn Linguistics, a morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in a given language.
		The plural of foot is feet, and this pair is one of seven mutated English plurals....
		Mouse is sometimes pluralized mouses when it refers to a computer mouseA mouse is a handheld pointing device for computers, involving a small object fitted with one or more buttons and shaped to sit naturally under the hand.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/English_plural (8355 words)

	In III Sent. D.6, q. 2, a. 1: "Whether Christ is Two in the Neuter?"
		Cum autem dicitur, Christus est aliud et aliud, cum aliud non praedicet naturam tantum, sed suppositum naturae (quia humana natura de Christo non praedicatur), requiritur quod sit ibi aliquid distinctum vel divisum a supposito humanae naturae, quod de Christo praedicetur.
		Reply 2: Numerical terms, as was said in 1, are related commonly to the person and the nature; hence speaking of personal unity, there is only one in Christ, inasmuch as we say one Christ; but speaking of the natural unity there is a twofold unity.
		Unde si diceretur: Christus est tantum unum, vel tantum aliquid, non excludit aliam naturam, sed aliud suppositum: et ideo haec est vera: Christus est tantum aliquid unum; et est in processu illo fallacia consequentis, quia aliquid unum est superius ad hominem.
	www4.desales.edu /~philtheo/loughlin/ATP/De_Unione/IIISentd6q2a1.html (2095 words)

	Plural Definition / Plural Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Plural is a grammatical number, typically referring to further than one of the referent in the real world.
		The singular is a grammatical number denoting a unit quantity (as opposed to the plural and other forms; A singular matrix is one that is not invertible.
		Plural is a grammatical number, typically referring to more than one of the referent in the real world.
	www.elresearch.com /Plural (466 words)

	Slovak Declension
		G pl. takes no ending in some geographical names (which are plurale tantum), esp. names in -áre, -iare, -le, -soft cons.+e, e.
		plurale tantum in -vowel + ce; except liace, pasca, ovca and nouns in -nca) or in -yòa/ -iòa, the nouns hrèa, papuèa, prièa, paprèa, in the plurale tantum in -e, in some nouns in -vowel+¾a and in some other nouns (e.
		akcia - akciám, harpya - harpyách), and (2) in the (plurale tantum) noun dvere
	www.angelfire.com /sk3/quality/Slovak_declension.html (9187 words)

	Consulenza Aziendale
		Per saperne di più vi invito a continuare a navigare per questo sito: scoprirete i vantaggi, non solo economici, di un consulente personale con una solida, ampia e diversificata esperienza.
		Non che io lavori da solo, ci mancherebbe, anzi per ogni incarico scelgo sempre i collaboratori più adatti (e se dopo questa prima presentazione qualche volta abbandonerò il singolare per il plurale sarà solo per questo: non uso il pluralis majestatis...).
		Diamone il più possibile una tantum ai meno abbienti
	www.grizzaffi.it (924 words)

	Plurale tantum - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Plurale tantum - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		A plurale tantum (plural pluralia tantum) is a noun that appears only in the plural and does not have a singular.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Plurale tantum contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Plurale_tantum (88 words)

	the Akkadian grammar: the noun
		The plural thus is characterized by long vowels (often not indicated in de writing) and by the loss of mimmation, the loss of the final m in the case endings.
		In most languages the singular is an unmarked form and the plural is indicated with special endings.
		plural the case ending is slightly different (see table: -ütum for nominative and -ütim in the oblique case = both in the genitive and accusative case).
	xoomer.virgilio.it /bxpoma/akkadeng/noun.htm (2081 words)

	Slovak declension (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		in G pl, geographical names in pl. (plurale tantum) change the a/e/i/o/u (without an acute or a preceding i) in the stem in á/é/í/ó/ú (e.
		There is also a 6th paradigm for the feminine nouns ending in -ea (idea, Kórea), which goes like žena, except that D sg and Lsg are idei, and G pl is ideí without change in the stem.
		In the G pl of some nouns, an ie/ e / o / á / ô is inserted in the last syllable of the stem (e.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/slovak_declension (2544 words)

	Fasti Online Research :: Information about Fasti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Roman Classical antiquity, fasti is the plural of the Latin adjective fastus, but more commonly used as a substantive, derived from fas, meaning what is binding, or allowable, by divine law, as opposed to jus, or human law.
		Fasti dies thus came to mean the days on which law business might be transacted without impiety, corresponding to our own lawful days; the opposite of the dies fasti were the dies nefasti, on which, on various religious grounds, the courts could not sit.
		fastes in French, still a plurale tantum) has been used for more modern writings, such as the (official, treasured) history and traditions of a regiment (e.g.
	www.ncweddingplanner.com /search/Fasti.html (1056 words)

	"Defective lexical items" - Topic Powered by Groupee Community
		So too the word "sand" is never pluralized when used in the sense of the grainy item (we pluralize only in its metaphorical meaning [sands of time] or its meaning of "shoreline" [sands of the beach]).
		What's anomalous about plural 'oats' is that it's a grain, and all the other specific grain names as well as the generics 'grain' and 'corn' are mass nouns.
		They can be singulare tantum, singular only, as with abstracts such as 'friendliness', or plurale tantum, which cross-linguistically tend to include artefacts made as pairs (scissors, trousers) and diseases (measles, mumps).
	wordcraft.infopop.cc /eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/932607094/m/161106692 (1361 words)

	Plurale tantum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many languages have pluralia tantum, such as the English word "scissors".
		Wiktionary list of English words exhibiting plurale tantum.
		This page was last modified 07:45, 16 December 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plurale_tantum (75 words)

	[No title]
		The word “cattle” is a peculiar one, in the English language as well as in others (German: Vieh, Rindvieh; French: bétail, bovines; Spanish: ganado: Italian: bestiame), for it is a 'plurale tantum' (a grammatical term derived from Latin and used for words that only exist in the plural form).
		Cattle are not viewed as individuals that occur singly; they are the prototype of a gregarious animal - a perception that may stem from their relationship to human possession and wealth, where more is better.
		In veterinary scientific literature the plurale tantum character of “cattle” sometimes gives rise to awkward formulations.
	www.vetscite.org /publish/articles/000011/article.html (1246 words)

	Encyclopedia: Plurale tantum
		Look up Plural on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Plural is a grammatical number, typically referring to more than one of the referent in the real world.
		The word singular may refer to one of several concepts.
		Dwarf is an interesting case: the common form of the plural was dwarfs — as, for example, in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — until J. Such nouns often retain their original plurals, at least for some time after they are introduced.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Plurale-tantum (293 words)

	Countability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This feature is treated within the EDEMD and within traditional Danish dictionaries as defective inflectional patterns like singularia tantum and pluralia tantum, as a parallel to countability, i.e.
		On the other hand, words like `penge' (`money') only have a plural form, which is also marked in the dictionaries mentioned above.
		The tags below are examples of the EUROTRA encoding, and they are values of the attribute sub-category of nouns in the lexicon.
	www.ilc.cnr.it /EAGLES96/morphsyn/node93.html (141 words)

	Ralph the Sacred River: Yom Kippur
		The earliest use I can find of the later, short expression is in the Tosafists (glossators) to the Babylonian Talmud, which would place its origin in the early medieval period.
		Kippurim is a tantum plurale ("only plural") in Biblical Hebrew, a word occurring only in the plural.
		Pluralia tantum are often used in Hebrew to denote abstract notions, like "atonement," alumim, "youth," tanhumim, "consolation." etc. They are less frequent in later forms of the language, which might account for the eventual changeover to the singular in yom kippur.
	ralphriver.blogspot.com /2005/10/yom-kippur.html (447 words)

	Ancient Times - Latin Lovers and Learners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The plural vocativus is the same as the plural nominativus.
		plurale tantum: a noun that only occurs in the plural*.
		N.B. 1: In the case of neuter nouns, the nominativus and accusativus singular and plural are the same!
	www.ancienttimes.net /cgi-ancienttimes/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=38&topic=6 (2278 words)

	Discussion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We are very interested in your version of performance and want to know, if and where it is possible to get the lyrics and the scores.
		Hello, I'm from the youth chamber choir Plurale Tantum from Breda, the Netherlands.
		Most of our choirmembers are great fans of the King'singers and we also sing a few of your a cappella arrangements.
	www.kingssingers.com /discus/messages/13/71.html?1018242585 (369 words)

	[No title]
		The case can be the genitival accusative, which is different -- in the singular and the plural ("rajan ylittävä"/"rajat ylittävä").
		We ignore the forms -- "on kaunista", used with mass terms, and "ovat kauniit", used in -- constructions of the "plurale tantum" kind.
		The result is either always plural -- or plural if any of the components is, depending on the conjunction.
	www.cs.chalmers.se /~aarne/GF/grammars/resource/finnish/SyntaxFin.gf (4706 words)

	Scandinavian Scots
		Swedish, on the other hand, has the colloquial plurale tantum grejer "things, tools", but this word does not look very ancient, and I tend to assume it is a borrowing in Swedish.
		The choice of the vowel might be explained by the fact that the past tense singular is grét in Icelandic.
		This word's cognates are used in Scandinavian languages simply for "woman", such as the Icelandic kona, which has the genitive plural kvenna; Swedish has kvinna; and Danish has both kone "wife" and kvinde "woman".
	www.geocities.com /Athens/8308/scandiscots.html (732 words)

	ODBORNÉ AKTIVITY - VECNÉ SPRACOVANIE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The main principle of previously mentioned standard were free created subject headings strictly only on the base of substantive inversion of the first case of plural.
		The lexical units in natural language (natural wordorder.) in individual parts of subject heading will be given in the first case of plural.
		In singular will be given only when there is just this possibility (in case of plurale tantum) or if plural is not usual, its usage changes the meaning of concepts.
	www.snk.sk /snk/odborcin/vecne/prisp1.html (2670 words)

	Encyclopedia: Fasces
		Download high resolution version (457x640, 63 KB)Statue of Cincinnatus, Cincinnati, OH, 2004, by Rick Dikeman With one hand he returns the fasces, symbol of power as appointed dictator of Rome.
		With one hand he returns the fasces, symbol of power as appointed dictator of Rome.
		Sociologists usually define power as the ability to impose ones Will on others, even if those others resist in some way.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fasces (520 words)

	Wiktionary:Tea room - Wiktionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Words which have the same form in singular and plural are "fish" and "sheep".
		The Cockney rhyming slang term "bristols" (short for the plural of "Bristol City" (a football team) rhyming with "titties") is has a lower-case initial.
		I have found various websites that give general rules for the formation of plural forms, but have not found a dictionary that supplies the plural form of the listed nouns.
	wiktionary.org /wiki/Wiktionary:Tea_room (10185 words)

	Encyclopedia: Donald Duck
		Business shirt A shirt is a piece of clothing for the trunk of the body.
		Look up Pants in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Pants are clothing for the body below the waist, a must for modesty regardless of gender; the term is an abbreviation of pantaloons, a puzzling plurale tantum as it comes from the French pantalon, stemming via the buffoonish commedia dellarte-character...
		Urban legends are a kind of folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them (see rumor).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Donald-Duck (852 words)

	Kamerkoor Bonton - finished projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Concert in Oisterwijk, on the occasion of the fundraising for the reconstruction of the local church
		Concert together with Plurale Tantum in the Theresa of Avilachurch, The Hague
		Concert together with Plurale Tantum in the Sacrament's Church in Breda
	www.kamerkoorbonton.nl /engels/finishedprojects.html (371 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)