Re: [tied] Androphobia sucks

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Vassil Karloukovski" <
v.karloukovski@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fortuna11111" <

fortuna11111@...>

> wrote:
>
> > Modern Bulgarian "trup" (coarpse) with a double plural:

trupove

> > (coarpses), trupi (blocks of wood).
>
> don't they look like two words, in fact:
>
> - trup (m.) 'corpse' - trupa - trupove (pl.), the second form being
> the old dual, preserved as cardinal (dva trupa 'two corpses'),

and

>
> - trup 'block of wood, log' - trupi - trupi (pl.), i.e. it behaves
> like a noun of _feminine_ gender (dve trupi 'two logs').
>
> Regards,
> Vassil

Yep, you should be right, especially if you have some
dictionaries there. And thanks for correctig me on "coarpse". I
guess I thought it was a "coarse" corpse :-)

Eva