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Similar to cacti and fungi, what are some other words that take the -i suffix when pluralized? (Any language.) ~

Posted - January 5, 2020

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  • 46117
    Jedi.

    One Jedi is a Jed. (ok, ok.  I'm not right here)

    Eggi
    One is an Egg.  Two are eggi.

    (ok, I'll be serious now)

    Let me think with my huge braini. (I have two)
    Hippopotimi
    two hippos
    Platipi  two platypuses

    radii  two radius


    I know you looked these up because the first two answers are the ones you gave in the question.  



    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at January 5, 2020 2:51 PM MST
      January 5, 2020 12:26 PM MST
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  • 52903
    I 1.  Why do you have two brains?
    2.  Are they both huge, or just one of them?
    3.  Why did didn’t you use either one of them when you answered this question?
    4.  I hope you know that I’m just joking, don’t get angry.
    5.  Anyone with two brains would have already known I was just joking.



    ~ This post was edited by Randy D at January 5, 2020 2:51 PM MST
      January 5, 2020 1:34 PM MST
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  • 44175
    Anyone with two brains would already know you were going to write that.
      January 5, 2020 1:42 PM MST
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  • 44175
    Here's a HUGE list:

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_irregular_plurals_ending_in_%22-i%22
      January 5, 2020 12:40 PM MST
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  • 52903
    You know I don’t do links, right?
    ~
      January 5, 2020 1:26 PM MST
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  • 44175
    I do.

      January 5, 2020 1:33 PM MST
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  • 52903

      Somehow, you’re not quite the sausage-server I expected. 



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      January 5, 2020 1:41 PM MST
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  • 10026
    That is funny!  I happen to like links of that sort.  Big, meaty, long, and fat.
    How can you miss?
      January 5, 2020 2:52 PM MST
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  • 52903
    Hey, wait . . . 


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      January 5, 2020 11:36 PM MST
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  • 44175
    Randi?
      January 5, 2020 1:33 PM MST
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  • 52903
    She’s my cousin, not a plural. 




    ((((Two Randys make a tag-team.))))


     
      January 5, 2020 2:45 PM MST
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  • 10026
    I was going to say that!!
    Thought thieving at its finest. 
      January 5, 2020 2:53 PM MST
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  • Stink i...

    This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at January 5, 2020 3:13 PM MST
      January 5, 2020 1:40 PM MST
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  • 44175
    No way you could stink.
      January 5, 2020 1:41 PM MST
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  • Its the look - Not the odor 
      January 5, 2020 1:43 PM MST
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  • 44175
    You look marvelous.
      January 5, 2020 1:43 PM MST
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  • 52903
    Nope. 
    ~
      January 5, 2020 1:43 PM MST
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  • Yep.
      January 5, 2020 1:44 PM MST
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    7268
    Octopi 
      January 5, 2020 2:27 PM MST
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  • 10026
    spaghetti.  It doubles as spaghetti when there are two or more strands.
     
      January 5, 2020 2:58 PM MST
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  • Words in Italian and Romanian regularly use -i as a plural, like "uomini" ("men"), "ragazzi" ("boys"), pomi ("trees" in Romanian). This derives from Latin, which pluralizes second-declension masculine nouns with -i as in "agri" ("fields"), "viri" ("men"), "filii" ("sons"). When English borrows Latin second-declension nouns, we often keep the original Latin plurals, thus we also have "alumnus" and "alumni" and others. This doesn't always happen, of course, as "campus" is from the Latin second-declension, but the English plural is "campuses", not "campi". 

    Interestingly, "octopus" does not quite fit the bill. It's not in fact a Latin second-declension noun, it's a combination of the Greek word "octo" meaning "eight" and "pous" meaning "foot". The plural of "pous" in Greek is "podes", so really, the plural of "octopus" should be "octopodes". :)
      January 5, 2020 5:55 PM MST
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  • 14795
    Pi ....
    Si 

    It spelt backwards 

    Halloumi 
      January 5, 2020 6:54 PM MST
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  • 19942
    Alumni
      January 6, 2020 7:03 AM MST
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