[Fictionary] not that word

[E Cohen]

I have no idea about the linguistic questions, but I'll say that there 
are some YouTube videos of people playing the (one-stringed) gusle and 
singing, which are quite striking.

On 5/30/2022 5:13 AM, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Friday, May 27, 2022 9:56:51 AM EDT E Cohen wrote:
>> Pierre knew GUSLE, or close enough, so not that one. Does someone know
>> where the archives are that I can search to see what words have been
>> used already?
> 
> I looked it up afterward (I remembered that it's a Slavic word for a stringed
> instrument) and found that Serbo-Croatian gusle have only one string, so why
> is the word plural? Czech housle (violin) and Russian gusli have multiple
> strings.
> 
> Czech for door (dveře) is plural, though the Russian cognate is not. How come?
> 
> Pierre
> 


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