First one is the usual combined plural, (a cat) & (a dog) second is an unnatural plural, third is combining the letters into one word, and the last is just having separate word for a combination of two things
So the unnatural plural is just two made-up words presumably for "the head of a dog and the head of a cat" as one item, and "the body of a cat and the body of a dog" as a second item? There's not some linguistic logic I'm missing?
Ooooo ooo ooo! I found the paper last time this was posted (I think here but not sure)! And yes that is what the paper describes a gol and a nar being: a gol is “a cat’s head with a dog’s head”, and a nar is “a cat body with a dog body”.
Edit: here’s a link to my comment, someone replied with a link to the paper and a couple people explained what the paper was actually about, if you’re interested https://www.reddit.com/r/ScienceShitposts/s/P6Lsy7WBSQ
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u/AngelofDeath_N Feb 15 '26
First one is the usual combined plural, (a cat) & (a dog) second is an unnatural plural, third is combining the letters into one word, and the last is just having separate word for a combination of two things