Talk:Obolus
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Commonness of the various forms
editSome information on the commonness of the various forms of this word:
- In the DWDS, only "Obolusse" is given as the plural.
- In the DWDS Kernkorpus,
- Obolus (the nominative, accusative and dative singular) is used 6 times,
- Obolen (one nominative plural) is used twice
- other forms are not used
- In the DWDS ZEIT corpus,
- Obolus is used approximately 410 times (it registered 527 hits, but 100–140 were duplicate entries)
- Obolen (one nominative plural) is not used(!)
- Obolusse (another nominative plural) is used once
- other forms are not used
- In Google Books' corpus,
- "ein Obolus" gets 236 hits (if you click through to the last page; not all hits show snippets)
- "zwei Obolen" gets 195 hits, "einige Obolen" gets 82, "die Obolen" 201
- "zwei Obolusse" gets 1 hit(!), "einige Obolusse" gets 1(!), "die Obolusse" 10
- "zwei Oboloi" gets 22 hits, "einige Oboloi" gets 3, "die Oboloi" 11
- "zwei Oboli" gets 45 hits, "einige Oboli" gets 14, "die Oboli" 52
- "zwei Obole" gets 85 hits, "einige Obole" gets 15, "die Obole" 99
- "zwei Obolus" gets 17 hits, "einige Obolus" gets 7, "die Obolus" gets too many irrelevant hits to filter