Re: Cardinals and ordinals

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Ray Brown wrote:

> On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 06:27 , John Cowan wrote:
> > In Chinese it's a prefix, which I think is very clever.
>
> ....and in Xhosa ordinals are formed by _prefixing_ the
> possessive affix to the noun form of the cardinal, except for
> 1st which is irregular  :)
Was the emphasis just on the fact that that it's a prefix, or is the
possessive usually suffixed? (So would it be more like first, two's,
three's, four's, ... or first, 'stwo, 'sthree, 'sfour, ...? I like the
look of the latter :)

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