Re: Padraic's numbers (fi: JG's list of conlangs)

--- Joe <joe@...> wrote:

> In this system, 15 is 'bumfit', and 20 is
> 'jiggit', or something similar.
> After 10, you have 'yan a dick', 'tan a dick',
> and so on, until 15.  After
> 15, it's yan a bumfit, tan a bumfit, again,
> until 20.  I assume it goes yan
> a jiggit, then, but I don't know.  I don't
> think the system goes much further than 20.

Curious. I didn't know how to count any higher
than 10 in "Cumbrian". It's curious, though, that
Kerno _can_ do similarly with yanipenthyck,
davipenthyck, travipenthyck, padgeoripenthyck,
ouygaint. It's that way in Brithenig as a matter
of course (yn e ghindig, dew e ghindig, etc.; but
dewnoe (18) rather than three-on-fifteen), and I
bet that's a feature of Cumbrian Brithenig in IB
as well.

Padraic.


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