Valthungian: Difference between revisions

===Ordinal Numbers and Other Number Forms===

The multiplicative numbers arise from a conflation of the word ''þīfs'' ‘time, occurrence’ with the genitive singular form of the ordinal number, resulting in a robust albeit historically incorrect derivation system. In Griutungi, the concept of multiple occurrences was expressed simply as a number and the accusative of the word ''þīhs'' ‘time, occurrence’: ''ǣn þīhs'' ‘once’, ''tua þīhsa'' ‘twice’, ''þrija þīhsa'' ‘three times’, and so on. Gradually these constructions fused together (Old Valthungian: ''aenþijhs'', ''tuaþijhsa'', ''þrijþijhsa''…) and perhaps based on the more common analogue of ‘twice’, around the time of Early Middle Valthungian they were reanalyzed as a genitive ending affixed to an ordinal (Middle Valthungian: ''ǣnþis'', ''tuaþis'', ''þriþis''…) The forms of the first three multiplicatives aren’t even particularly odd, in terms of language evolution, but that apparent ordinal + genitive construction was then applied analogously to the rest of the numbers, so where we might otherwise expect ''fim þīfs'' ‘five times’ to have become ''fimþis'', instead we find the ordinal form ''fimftis''.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle"

|-

|-

! 1  

| first  

| ǣniþis

|-

! 2  

| second  

| tuaþis

|-

! 3  

| third

| þriþis

|-

! 4  

| fourth  

| fiðurþis

|-

! 5  

| fifth

| fimftis

|-

! 6  

| sixth  

| sǣstis

|-

! 7  

| seventh  

| sivunþis

|-

! 8  

| eighth  

| ātuðis

|-

! 9  

| ninth  

| njunþis

|-

! 10  

| tenth  

| tǣjunþis

|-

! 11  

| eleventh  

| ǣnliftis

|-

! 12  

| twelfth  

| tuāliftis

|-

! 13  

| thirteenth  

| þrižatǣnþis

|-

! 20  

| twentieth  

| tuǣtiǧistis

|-

! 100  

| hundredth  

| hundaðis

|-

! 1,000  

| thousandth  

| þūsundiðis

|-

! 1,000,000  

| millionth  

| miljǭnþis