plu.
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To aba, ab, ba answers a sing. umu, um, mu, so that sing. umu-ntu, um-ntu or mu-ntu, a man, a person; plu. aba-ntu, ab-ntu, ba-ntu.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
Freeing, abl. w. verbs of, 214, 1, a. frēnum, plu. of, 60, 2.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
Inseparable prepositions, 159, 3, N. īnsidiae, plu. only, 56, 3. īnstar, 58.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
Ahnungoog, plu. n. a star Ahyah, v. he is, was Ahneen, adv. how?
From Sketch of Grammar of the Chippeway Languages To Which is Added a Vocabulary of some of the Most Common Words by Summerfield, John
The word is extant in Old English only in the Glossaries, in the gen. sing., "handful beouaes," etc., and in Old Saxon only in the gen. plu. beuuo.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.
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