nonesuch 41: 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).
Where found
Slovene (Slavonic, IE)
Domain
morphology: inflection
Subdomain
suppletion
Keywords
noun, number, dual
Type
nonesuch
Universals violated
none
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.
