Tyl Sjok dates

Hi!

I have the lexicon of Tyl Sjok at hand now and have inserted time
units.

   njati           second. a base unit (smallest irregular time unit)
   (the new entry :->)

   kul             two
   kul njati       second second; minute
   kul il njati    to the second power of a second: minute

   hen             three
   hen njati       third second; hour
   hen il njati    to the third power of a second: hour

   xjun            four
   xjun njati      fourth second; day
   xjun il njati   to the fourth power of a second: day

   kyng            five
   kyng njati      fifth second; week
   kyng il njati   to the fifth power of a second: week

   exul            six
   exul njati      sixth second; month
   exul il njati   to the sixths power of a second: month

   ljehu           seven
   ljehu njati     seventh second; year
   ljehu il njati  to the seventh power of a second: year

The 'il' makes the power explicit.  Otherwise it is ambiguous whether
its an ordinal, which has to be resolved from context.

And 'I was born on the 16th of May, 2003.' would then be:

   La       xyt                  jo     hw
   to-turn  state-of-being-born  I-PAT  happen-when

   ljehu  njati   hen  kjox  kul  wng  hen   -- year 2003
   7      second  3    10    2    and  3

   wng  exul  njati   kyng                   -- month May
   and  6     second  5

   wng  xjun  njati   kjox  ling  exul.      -- day 16
   and  4     second  10    1     6

(Instead of 'kjox ling exul' you may also say 'kjox wng exul')

Literally, this means:
   'I (was) turned into the state of being born on...'.

Further, one is allowed to specify the date with weeks.  Then:

   ...
   wng  exul  njati   kyng
   and  6     second  5                      -- month May

   wng  xjun  njati   kul                    -- week 2
   and  5     second  2

   wng  xjun  njati   kul.                   -- day 2
   and  4     second  2

**Henrik

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