Re: The deliberate redundancy; was: Idioms

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Sally Caves wrote:

> dunn patrick w wrote:
> > Almost all numbers are idiomatic, hence we have "ute," meaning "finger,"
> > also meaning "one".  Fave, "hand," meaning "five."
>
> I think Irina's Valdyan does this.
Only with "five" (_ran_), from _rain_ "hand".

Also all compounds of five: the dual _iran_ "ten", the plural _rani_
"fifty" and the dual of the plural (or the plural of the dual,
however you like to look at it) _irani_ "a hundred", and with the
"generalizing" prefix: _aran_ "twenty" ("all the hands", perhaps from
counting on fingers and toes ;-) and _arani_ "two hundred".

   Irina

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