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Re: EAK numerals

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 6:54
On 5/22/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> Philip Newton wrote: > > On 5/21/07, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote: > > > >> 1000 = xília (AG χίλια - neuter plural) > >> 10000 = múria (μύρια) > > > > And I wonder whether these should take the "regular" adjective ending > > -o, rather than continuing a plural. But I'm not sure about this > > Umm - on checking, I find that the combining form of 10000 is indeed > μυριο-, but with 1000 both χιλια- and χιλιο- were used. In English we > 'chiliahedron' and 'myriapod'; tho I notice the ancient Greek for the > latter is μυριόπους - how confusing! > > I need to think on this.
My MG dictionary wasn't as much of a help as I had hoped, then, since it has μυριάποδο with -a- for "millipede"! (In addition to χιλιοποδάρα and χιλιοποδαρούσα, both of which seem more colloquial to me, but which have -o-.) But e.g. χιλιοπλάσιος for "thousandfold", also with -o-, and the unhelpful χιλιετηρίς "millennium", without a combining vowel. And also μυριόπλουτος "stinking rich", μυριοπληθής "countless", and μυριόνεκρος "extremely bloody (e.g. battle)" with -o-. My impression is that you could do worse than use -o for both xílio and múrio. Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>