A Bit More
About Numbers
We have met cardinal numbers used in counting and
saying how many. Now we need to look at ordinal numbers, used for putting
things in order, in dates, etc.
1a kensa first
Üdn den, Adam, o an kensa den. One
man, Adam, was the first man.
2 dew (m), diw
(f) two
2a second,
nessa[3] second
Thew Exodus an nessa lever an Beybel.
Exodus is the second book
of the Bible.
3 trei (m), teyr
(f) three
3a tryja,
tressa third
4 pajar(m), peder
(f) four
5 pemp five
5ves pempes fifth
6 whegh six
6ves wheffes sixth
And
the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
After six
the ending –ves (with an occasional irregularity) is used to produce
ordinal numbers, the equivalent of English –th.
7 seyth seven
7ves seythves seventh
8 eth eight
8ves ethves eighth
9 naw nine
9ves nawhes ninth
To turn a unit into a “teen” you add -dhek a modified version of deg ten. To make it into an ordinal number
you soften the –k back to -g before adding -ves[6],
the equivalent of adding –th to a
number in English:
10 deg ten
10ves degves tenth
11 üdnek eleven
11ves üdnegves eleventh
12 dowdhek twelve
12ves dewdhegves twelfth
13 terdhek thirteen
13ves terdhegves thirteenth
14 peswardhek fourteen
14ves peswardhegves fourteenth
15 pemdhek fifteen
15ves pemdhegves fifteenth
In
the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar …
16 whetek sixteen
16ves whetegves sixteenth
17 seytek seventeen
17ves seytegves seventeenth
18 etek eighteen
18ves etegves eighteenth
19 nownjek nineteen
19ves nownjegves nineteenth
20 ügens twenty
20ves ügensves twentieth
After twenty, numbers become complex. When used
with a noun, the noun comes after the first component of the number.
21 onan
warn ügens twenty-one
21a kensa
warn ügens twenty-first
Hebma ew an kensa cansvledhen
warn ügens.
This is the twenty-first century.
Hedhyw ew an nawhes dedh
warn ügens a vis Me.
Today
is the twenty-ninth day of the month of May.
No comments:
Post a Comment