Talk:μαλάκων
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does not exist[edit]
I write this note, because i find many similar cases of wrong-wrong forms (e.g. at Cat:misspellings and elsewhere).
When a lexicographer says of a greek word that it does not have an inflectional form (here a genitive pl.), he refers to usage. Let us suppose for a moment that it DOES have a pl.Gen: Then, we construct it in a grammatically correct way. Note, that the 'grammatically correct way' comes naturally to a native speaker. He will construct any word, according to his inner grammar.
- Here, for μαλάκας, DSMG[1] gives a declension paradigm (inflected like O3 ταμίας equivalent to our category:τουρίστας) with the note: without genitive plural.
- HAD there been a pl.gen, it would have been μαλακών according to their O3 table. Not μαλάκων as in nouns like φύλακας - pl.Gen. των φυλάκων. Adding to confusion: μαλακών coincides with gen.pl. of adjective μαλακός.
- if we wish to make a page for a 'disputed' gentive, that would be μαλακών. The form *μαλάκων is genitive plural of *μάλακας. The two words do not exist.
- compare to the other genitive in Category:Greek disputed terms: των κοτών. This is also 'not used at all', but the form is correct, disupted or not.
Finally, are we making pages for the thousands of non-used genitives?[2] (Reverse happens with non-used plurals: they DO have a grammatically correct hypothetical plural). sarri.greek (talk) 09:17, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
References[edit]
- ^ μαλάκας - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
- ^ Genitive tends to be taken over by periphrasis with prep. από+accusative (of..., from...).
18-Oct-2018[edit]
- Redirected to μαλακών — Saltmarsh. 17:48, 18 October 2018 (UTC)