| From: | Michael Poxon <mike@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 5, 2009, 1:04 |
Like many langs, Omina has no words for specific very large numbers. Above 12, numbers are usually given as "eta" (lit., 'a throng of something'), or -eta is used as a suffix to indicate a collection of related things: i.e., ti "faint star" : tieta "open cluster". Indeed in one of the dialects, -eta has become simply a plural suffix -ed (classical Omina has no nominal pluraliser) Mike