Plural of milah (word)

amother

Mon, May 04 2020, 12:52 pm

I am yeshivish, went to BY schools.
Milim, I thought, is plural form of milah. Isn't it?

In another thread, I saw the word milos used. Is that accurate?
Milos!?

(Edited to make sure I don't offend anyone.)

PinkFridge

Mon, May 04 2020, 12:53 pm

Milim.
The only kametz hai word that's zachor is lailah, afaik, so that's where the confusion comes in.

amother

Mon, May 04 2020, 12:55 pm

Thanks. I just looked online, to make sure I'm not insane, and it's
Milah singular, milim plural

simcha2

Mon, May 04 2020, 12:55 pm

I haven't seen the posts to which you are referring, but sometimes people anglacize and then re-hebrew the word.

So milahs (plural in english by adding an 's') then sounds like milos

amother

Mon, May 04 2020, 12:57 pm

Here's a direct quote from another thread. Pretty ironic Wink

We learn perush hamilos well and in depth with all klalim, but not dikduk as a subject.

amother

Mon, May 04 2020, 1:00 pm

I'm being dan lekaf zechus that it was an autocorrect, not a reflection on an educational deficiency.

There was another autocorrect in that thread that was funny- someone was talking about levush, and it was coming up as lavish Wink

kind of fit with the topic

Miri1

Mon, May 04 2020, 1:02 pm

Plural of Milah is Millim.

But if it is "samuch" (construct) it would be Milot - eg "milot (milos) sh'elah" - "question words".

Hillery

Mon, May 04 2020, 1:03 pm

There's a sefer by one of the Lubavitcher Rebbes called פירוש המילות, which is the accepted form. Also the plural of bris milah is milos.

amother

Mon, May 04 2020, 1:05 pm

Wow, pinkfridge and mimi1, sounds like you learned dikduk well!
I didn't- we basically filled out charts of the sheva Binyanim for four years in HS. Seminary didn't teach me that much more...

I'm going to change my OP, so that no one will get offended

amother

Mon, May 04 2020, 1:06 pm

Hillery wrote:

There's a sefer by one of the Lubavitcher Rebbes called פירוש המילות, which is the accepted form. Also the plural of bris milah is milos.

I

Really?

What do you mean by"the accepted form"?

Hillery

Mon, May 04 2020, 1:07 pm

And the Rambam uses milos as a plural for words (http://kodesh.snunit.k12.il/i/4202.htm#s7).

So not quite the modern day chassidish mistake you might think.

amother

Mon, May 04 2020, 1:10 pm

Hillery wrote:

And the Rambam uses milos as a plural for words (http://kodesh.snunit.k12.il/i/4202.htmk.

I don't have the patience to read the whole thing. Where does it say milos?

simcha2

Mon, May 04 2020, 1:11 pm

Miri1 wrote:

Plural of Milah is Millim.

But if it is "samuch" (construct) it would be Milot - eg "milot (milos) sh'elah" - "question words".

Serious question,

Why wouldn't it be milei (מילי) shelah?

Hillery

Mon, May 04 2020, 1:13 pm

amother [ OP ] wrote:

I don't have the patience to read the whole thing. Where does it say milos?

Do ctrl+f to search in page. מילות

Kodesh snunit site is an excellent place to search for words, and they'll even show you similar spellings.

banana123

Mon, May 04 2020, 1:14 pm

Hillery wrote:

There's a sefer by one of the Lubavitcher Rebbes called פירוש המילות, which is the accepted form. Also the plural of bris milah is milos.

No - plural of bris milah, AFAIK, is בריתות מילה.
You have a lot of britot [milah] to go to this month.

amother

Mon, May 04 2020, 1:17 pm

banana123 wrote:

No - plural of bris milah, AFAIK, is בריתות מילה.
You have a lot of britot [milah] to go to this month.

Which people call brissim Wink

tryinghard

Mon, May 04 2020, 1:17 pm

banana123 wrote:

No - plural of bris milah, AFAIK, is בריתות מילה.
You have a lot of britot [milah] to go to this month.

This - because there are different forms of ברית - covenants, so the adjective מילה describes which type of ברית. But the ברית is the noun and is the only part that is modified.

But you gotta love colloquial “frum-speak” - I hear people talk about “brissim” and “shabbosim” all the time LOL

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Hillery

Mon, May 04 2020, 1:18 pm

banana123 wrote:

No - plural of bris milah, AFAIK, is בריתות מילה.
You have a lot of britot [milah] to go to this month.

Let me reword. The plural of milah in the sense of a bris millah is milos.

banana123

Mon, May 04 2020, 1:18 pm

simcha2 wrote:

Serious question,

Why wouldn't it be milei (מילי) shelah?

No

Not sure why, honestly. But no.