Those of us on many listservs aka mailing lists aka email usually say “list members” to refer to the members of the mailing list or group. Spanish uses ’listero’. I notice Urdu uses ’listvala’ – the suffix -vala being the word spelled in traditional, Kiplingesque literature as ’wallah’. (interestingly, it also serves as a suffix carrying the meaning “about to…”; housevale [gharvale] are ’household members’). I’ve tried ’listnik’ for Russian. Does anyone have examples from other languages of words serving this meaning?
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