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Unlike ethnonyms, nouns formed with the suffix ''-ulu'', often identifying a person from a certain place (e.g. ''lailulu'', ''naṅgaśaurulu'') are not pluralia tantum and have regularly-formed plurals (in ''-ulū''). | Unlike ethnonyms, nouns formed with the suffix ''-ulu'', often identifying a person from a certain place (e.g. ''lailulu'', ''naṅgaśaurulu'') are not pluralia tantum and have regularly-formed plurals (in ''-ulū''). | ||
Some words are '''singularia tantum''': | |||
# many collective nouns: | |||
#: ''śvaṅga'' "money", ''b̃amu'' "breasts [pair of]", ''sājābe'' "leafy greens" (and particular types, e.g. ''mädisa'' "spinach"), ''ṭēmba'' "legumes" (and particular types, e.g. ''dīlla'' "peas", ''āśah'' "lentils"), ''mugba'' "cereals", ''javata'' "free time" | |||
# feelings and sensations: | |||
#: ''lāca'' "romantic love", ''ṭärṇa'' "fun", ''välna'' "sadness" | |||
# nouns denoting certain uncountable things: | |||
#: ''paɂe'' "dust", ''iḫare'' "spices", ''ḍaṃla'' "ice", ''m̃āku'' "ash" | |||
# certain illnesses and health conditions: | |||
#: ''khuṃɂanūkare'' "blue plague", ''khoppuḍu'' "cough" (cf. pluralizable ''khoptya'' "a single instance of coughing"), ''loviśñīya'' "runny nose" | |||
# proper nouns referring to certain concepts: | |||
#: ''yunya'', ''mulisidam'' "Dundulanyä-Skyrdagor 'Internet'"; | |||
#: individual sports, such as ''teyakaitsu'' or ''yalkatūfa'' | |||
#: cardinal points (''anūṭa'' "north", ''prādauna'' "south", ''nilāḍa'' "east", ''śusopa'' "west"<ref>Note that the plural form ''Śusopai'', lit. "(the) Wests", exists as a lexicalized proper noun referring to the regions of the Dundulanyä part of the West Coast of Lusaṃrīte. There is no similar usage for the other words denoting cardinal points.</ref>, as well as intercardinal directions, half and quarter-winds), including relative ones such as e.g. ''prābuñjña'' "upstream", ''sambuñjña'' "downstream"; | |||
#: musical genres, such as ''nāsibe'', ''ḍāfukulebe'' | |||
#: specialistic terminology made with suffixes (or compounds) related to science (''-śodda'', ''-yuhlä''), diseases (''-nūkare'', ''-hūttlä''), and political/philosophical currents (''-kumāṣa'') | |||
# most toponyms: | |||
#: ''Laḫduliśūse'' "the Confederation", ''Lusaṃrīte'', ''Ṣurṭāgah'' "Skyrdagor", ''Lāltaṣveya'', ''Naṅgaśūra'', ''Dändämämine'' | |||
====Irregular vocatives==== | ====Irregular vocatives==== | ||