Rara #41

Legacy number: 41

 Number  41
 Phenomenon  stem suppletion of a noun ('man, person') essentially determined by number, with one stem used for all singular cases and another stem for all plural cases, but with both stems used for the dual, distributed by cases (most taking the plural stem, but a few the singular stem).
 Found in  Slovene (Slavonic, IE)
 Domain  morphology: inflection — suppletion
 Type  nonesuch
 Keywords  noun, number, dual
 Source  Plank, Frans (1994c). Homonymy vs. suppletion: A riddle (and how it happens to be solved in ...). In Agreement Gender Number Genitive & (EUROTYP Working Papers VII/23), 81-86.
 Violates  none

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