[Avodah] [via Avodah] Legions

H Lampel via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Tue Aug 16 06:51:26 PDT 2016



On 8/16/2016 6:57 AM, Jay F. ("Yaakov") Shachter wrote:
> Hebrew words that end in -on are masculine in gender, and masculine
> words usually form their plural by addin -im, but words that end in
> -on form their plural by adding -oth as a rule, one says ra`ayonoth
> and sh`onoth and xalonoth.
I guess

evyonim
gilyonim
xivyyonim
divyonim
rimonim
tsidonim
rishonim
acharonim
kadmonim
shemonim
esronim
onim
beinonim
tachtonim
shonim
nechonim
nevonim
bonim
nidonim
aronim
armonim
almonim

are all exceptions?

Zvi Lampel



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