Timeline for Singular to plural noun
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| Jul 1, 2013 at 19:57 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Regarding -f > -ves, J.R.R. Tolkien also notably pluralized turf as turves: “The oldest kind were, indeed, no more than built imitations of smials, thatched with dry grass or straw, or roofed with turves, and having walls somewhat bulged.” and “For after three days the Men of the Mark prepared the funeral of Théoden; and he was laid in a house of stone with his arms and many other fair things that he had possessed, and over him was raised a great mound, covered with green turves of grass and of white evermind.” and other examples besides. | |
| Jul 1, 2013 at 19:48 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Untrue. The plural of elf has always been elves (well, ever since singular ælf stopped becoming plural ælfe). It’s dwarves whose older-looking form he recalled, to make it seem equivalent in antiquity to elves. However, you are correct that he did use the form hoofs 30 times across The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, as compared with using the hooves form only 5 times across the same corpus. | |
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| Jul 1, 2013 at 17:00 | history | answered | Adam Tudor Jones | CC BY-SA 3.0 |