s Thoughts from the Physics Chick: Tribond Tuesday

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Tribond Tuesday

child
brother
ox

5 Comments:

At October 13, 2009 5:22 PM, Blogger krebscout said...

Very...ENtertaining.

Oh boy I'm cheesy.

 
At October 13, 2009 5:44 PM, Blogger SeƱora H-B said...

Yeah, that was going to be my guess too. My brain is stuck somewhere in morphophonology. Delightful!

 
At October 13, 2009 6:29 PM, Blogger Th. said...

.

Oh.

I was going to say things I throw in the mire.

 
At October 14, 2009 2:14 AM, Blogger Charly said...

children
oxen
brethren

All three have non-"-s" plural forms. We see this in current German words.

(As does, apparently, my word verification, with "majecten." I like to think of this as the individual majesties associated with consummate "v"s.)

 
At October 14, 2009 8:33 PM, Blogger Katya said...

Good, good, disturbing, and good!

Charly, the fun thing I remember about German was how many ways one could pluralize a word: -s, -(e)n, -er, -e, umlaut, etc. :)

 

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