da= plural proclitic found in combination with a handful of [...]

Part of Speech	quantifier
Phonetic Form	ⁿda
Proto-Form	POc: *ra '3 plural'

• • plural proclitic found in combination with a handful of irregular plural nouns

  Encyclopedic Info

  Synt.: Ordinary nouns encode their plural using dapa or uña, e.g. dapa teliki ~ uña teliki ‘(the) chiefs’.

  • • Example 509:
      

      mwaliko → da=penuo

      man → men

    • Example 510:
      

      emele → da=viñevi

      woman → women

    • Example 511:
      

      menu → da=meliko

      child → children

Related entries

• See also:
  • dapa² plural marker for human nouns / in the absence of a noun head, dapa serves as head in a plural NP with human reference: ‘people’, ‘those (who+)’ / ‹s.o.›’s people: relatives, family; community