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Double plural
A double plural is a plural form to which an extra suffix has been added, mainly because the original plural suffix had become unproductive and therefore irregular. So the form as a whole was no longer seen as a plural (this is an instance of morphological leveling).
Examples of this can be seen in the history of English and Dutch. Historically, the general English plural markers were not only ''-s'' or ''-en'' but also (in certain specific declensions) ''-ra''/''-ru'' (which is still rather general today in German under the form ''-er''). The ancient plural of ''child'' was "cildra/cildru", to which an ''-en'' suffix was later added when the ''-ra''/''-ru'' became unproductive; the Dutch plural form ''kind-er-en'' and the corresponding Zeelandic form ''kind-er-s'' are also double plurals which were formed in the same way as the English double plurals, while for example German and Limburgian have (historically conservative) single plurals such as ''Kind-er''.
==See also==
*Reduplicated plural
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