-ers

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From, a chiefly dialectal plural morpheme equivalent to standard Dutch (whence Afrikaans ).

Usage notes

 * The colloquial plurale tantum is only etymologically an inflection of, whose true plural is.
 * Two other Afrikaans nouns are backformations from plurals originally using the suffix -ers: (“egg”, from Dutch ) and  (“chicken”, from Dutch ).