<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 21:06, Lieven L. Litaer <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de">levinius@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> - {-Du'} is a suffix for body parts and is generally used for body <br>
parts. When non-body parts are named after body parts (like the teeth on <br>
a gear or a cumb) then they are still associated with body parts, so the <br>
suffix {-Du'} is used. But there are very few words that originally were <br>
body parts, but the connection to the body part meaning has been lost. <br>
So now, they use {-mey} for plural suffix.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have a follow-up from Maltz for this about the suffix for body parts which are removable or transferable (e.g., in the case of hermit crabs).</div><div><br></div><div>--- begin quote ---</div><div>{nagh DIr} is considered a body part. The plural takes -{Du'}. That's the case whether the shell is still on the animal or not. But if the shell (off the animal) is broken up and a piece or pieces of it are used for something (like turtle shells here on Earth have been used for guitar picks), the plural takes {-mey}.</div><div>--- end quote --- </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div></div></div>