Sound changes causing divergence of ordinals from cardinals
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 5, 2006, 12:46 |
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This idea came up in the discussion of numerals. Below is a set of cardinal
numbers, with the ordinals formed regularly from them by a suffix -ke.
Let's take turns proposing sound changes (one at a time please) until the
ordinals can no longer be regularly formed regularly from the cardinals,
and indeed form a separate set of roots. Everything is in CXS.
Value Cardinal Ordinal
1 iwa iwake
2 naro naroke
3 miko mikoke
4 toko tokoke
5 ken kenke
6 jasu jasuke
7 Sigu Siguke
8 dZoze dZozeke
9 hija hijake
10 nao naoke
11 haro haroke
12 otsu otsuke
13 naomiko naomikoke
20 naronao naronaoke
21 naronaiwa naronaiwake
22 naronaonaro naronaonaroke
30 mikonao mikonaoke
31 naronaoharo naronaoharoke
32 naronaotsu naronaotsuke
33 mikonaomiko mikonaomikoke
Let's see what we can do!
Pete
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