Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016)
by ptaipale on Monday May 28, 2018 @05:15AM
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These are all Indo-European languages. But interestingly, this has been transported even to Finnic languages, which are grammatically entirely different and unrelated, but still have plural forms for the same words:
pants -> Finnish "housut", scissors -> "sakset"; there is no singular "housu" or "saksi" in that meaning. As above, there is the singular "saksi" but it means a Saxon.
pants -> Finnish "housut", scissors -> "sakset"; there is no singular "housu" or "saksi" in that meaning. As above, there is the singular "saksi" but it means a Saxon.