From: Nik Taylor (fortytwo@gdn.net)
Date: Sun Sep 09 2001 - 07:54:36 EST
Barry Garcia wrote:
> Question: So, what is the explanation for these? Don't most romance langs
> use the word for 10 + the smaller number in order to make the teens past
> 15? It also appears that when you hit 18, you subtract from 20 to get that
> number. Was that a latin development, or is this something unique to
> Cardajiñinsa?
In Classical Latin, 11-17 were formed from small number plus 10
(one-ten, two-ten, three-ten, etc.), 18 and 19 were literally "two from
twenty" and "one from twenty", as were all 8's and 9's below 100.
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