387
edits
Rttirri: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Vocabulary
| Line 135: | Line 135: | ||
*''Pisyikitepe'' ("Internet", lit. "electricity book" - this may be seen as ironic, since ''kitepe'' is itself an obvious Arabic loan) | *''Pisyikitepe'' ("Internet", lit. "electricity book" - this may be seen as ironic, since ''kitepe'' is itself an obvious Arabic loan) | ||
*''uiuiuni'' ("banana", lit. "crescent") | *''uiuiuni'' ("banana", lit. "crescent") | ||
===Numerals=== | |||
Native Rttirri numerals only go up to five, with the words for "four" and "five" being formed through reduplication; there are also native words for various other small quantities, including zero. However, these numerals exist in tandem with numbers loaned from Sanskrit. For numbers where Rttirrian and Sanskrit versions exist, the Sanskrit root tends to be used in compounds and in higher-register terms, similar to prefixes like ''mono-'' and ''bi-'' in English. An example is ''tefettarri'' ("bicycle", lit. "two-wheel"). | |||
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="text-align:center;" | |||
|- | |||
! Number | |||
! Rttirrian Root<br>(where applicable) | |||
! Sanskrit Root<br>(where applicable) | |||
|- | |||
| 0 | |||
| parta | |||
| sunya | |||
|- | |||
| many<br>(traditionally,<br>more than five) | |||
| kuie | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
| a few<br>(traditionally,<br>2 - 5) | |||
| murri | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
| 1 | |||
| e | |||
| ekama | |||
|- | |||
| 2 | |||
| tau | |||
| tefe | |||
|- | |||
| 3 | |||
| kui | |||
| tereni | |||
|- | |||
| 4 | |||
| tauau | |||
| chafari | |||
|- | |||
| 5 | |||
| kuiui | |||
| pacha | |||
|- | |||
| 6 | |||
| | |||
| sata | |||
|- | |||
| 7 | |||
| | |||
| sappa | |||
|- | |||
| 8 | |||
| | |||
| asata | |||
|- | |||
| 9 | |||
| | |||
| nafa | |||
|- | |||
| 10 | |||
| | |||
| tasa | |||
|} | |||
==Dialectology== | ==Dialectology== | ||