Re: [tied] Re: Alb. n. pl. endings -at/-t

On 8/10/05, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Abdullah Konushevci
> <akonushevci@...> wrote:
> > Thanks a lot, Richard, for your feedback. It just comes to my mind
> > also Arabic <hayvan> 'animal' and plural <hayvan-at> 'animals' etc.
> >
>
> That means -at behaves here like IE -ax, as the plural of inanimates.
> What type of nouns take this ending?
>
>
> Torsten

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I think, after I take a look in many websites, for my knowledge of
Arabic is just a little over zero, that -at is regular plural in
Arabic and is common as for animate (cf. talebah f. 'student', talebat
'students', mu'allim 'teacher', pl. 'mu'allimat 'teacher's) and
inanimate (cf. Ramaadan 'month', pl. 'Ramaadanaat).

Konushevci