Re: [tied] Androphobia sucks

> > > 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

Ops, I am wondering now. I just quickly skimmed through your
message the fist time. Actually, "trupa" should be feminine and
the singular of "trupi" (?). But you do have a diminutive "trupche",
which can be a derivative of both. I am not sure about the sg. of
trupi... and have no Bulgarian dictionary here. "Trupa" is indeed
also the dual of "trup". Did you use a dictionary for reference? I
am baffled.

Eva