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Re: "Numeric" nouns?

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: "Numeric" nouns?
• Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 17:19:11 EDT

In a message dated 5/6/2008 15:21:18 PM Central Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> Voragh:
> >>I wouldn't include the nouns {cha'puj} and {cha'pujqut} with the examples
> >>of the number {cha'}.  But it is an example of how numbers can combine to
> >>form compound nouns.
> 
> Another example is {loSpev} "quadrotriticale".
> 
> Interesting that they're both "scientific" sounding names.  Interesting too 
> that the other (second) morpheme in these - *{puj} (some sort of mineral?) 
> and *{pev} (lobe [of grain]?) - are unattested separately, though *{puj} 
> shows up again in the common mineral {beqpuj} *bekpuj*.
> 
> Can anyone think of other examples?
> 


The only other examples of numbers used in compounds that I can find are all 
the bird names with {cha'} and {Hutvagh} and {vIychorgh}.  {wejpuH} comes 
close.

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