Re: a few questions
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 18, 2004, 22:24 |
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In a message dated 7/18/2004 1:26:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
ThatBlueCat@AOL.COM writes:
><<Are there terms similar to 'dual' and 'trial' for numbers four-ten? If so,
>what are they?>>
>Tetral, quinqual, sextal, septal, octal, etc. (Can some of the Latin
learners
>verify these?)
The term I've seen for four is "quadral." That was in Greville Corbett's
book _Number_. He says there is no clear case of a quadral number in any natural
language.