Being Welsh - I’ll have a stab... The usual method to ‘pluralise’ a Welsh noun is to add ‘au’ thus the answer is llathau
That wouldn’t fit very well into the small rectangle under a roadsign though…. > On 11 May 2020, at 10:12 am, Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sunday, May 10, 2020 4:46:27 PM EDT John Nichols wrote: >> 4. A llath is a great UK unit – it is legal in the UK so I tell me >> students it is acceptable here > > What is the plural of "llath"? There is no entry in Wiktionary, though there > are links to it. > > Another unit one could use in such a test is "arshin". You could take points > off for the wrong form of the word. Using nouns with numbers in Russian is > complicated, and Russian retains separate dative and accusative cases (and a > locative/prepositional, which was lost in Proto-Germanic), which in English > merged (into the dative) shortly after the end of Old English. > > Pierre > -- > The Black Garden on the Mountain is not on the Black Mountain. > > > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > [email protected] > https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.colostate.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fusma&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7Ca39bbd832cac4740aace08d7f594c8c9%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637247891683697331&sdata=7I2T6qdc1jH%2FY94nLbCz5ZVDLy2Xk%2Bg%2BKY8QWIgZbos%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
