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In linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are not specific to one kind of thing. [1] For example, the collective noun "group" can be applied to people ("a group of people"), or dogs ("a group of dogs"), or objects ("a group of stones").
The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners. [1] Most terms used here may be found in common dictionaries and general information web sites. [2] [3] [4
Adjectives ending -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. the English, the Cornish). So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. the French, the Dutch) provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' /tʃ/ sound (e.g. the adjective Czech does not qualify as its -ch is pronounced /k/).
3SG. AOR amjeg sleep aan* (s)he Et amjeg aan* 3SG.AOR sleep (s)he 'He/she/it is sleeping.' Object pronouns Object pronouns Singular Dual Trial Plural 1st person inclusive --- cajau cataj caja exclusive ñak camrau camtaj cama 2nd person yic**, -c courau coutaj cowa 3rd person yin**, -n rau ettaj ra Object pronouns are free morphemes and occur after verbs and certain "case-marking prepositions ...
Apache A Parisian gangster or thug (from the collective name Apache for several nations of Native Americans). [1]Bohemian A person with an unconventional artistic lifestyle (originally meaning an inhabitant of Bohemia; the secondary meaning may derive from an erroneous idea that the Romani people originate from Bohemia). [2]
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