SOME FURTHER GRAMMATICAL POINTS ORM ON O OSS SS F ATI F THE P E IVE PLURAL NUMERALS : La Y; IX.8.7 this cow legs La Y Sr. The Incidental Material furnishes many more examples, including IM IX.8.6 my sister husband Y; mother mother ‘mother mother our Jack (a) Collective singular forms include IV.9.11 ’ wife Y; our Jack Mary our Jack s [wife who herring Nb Cu Du We La Y Ch Db Sa Wo Gl Nth CARDINAL O Nt Lei R Nth Hu Nf Sf Bk Bd Hrt Ess MxL So 41 In cardinal numbers above tw W Brk Sr K Co D Do Ha Sx. digit may precede the higher, as in VII. 1.12 VII. 1.12 TWENTY-ONE is expressed by a score one-and-twenty Nb Du Y Ch He L So. IM and one St. VII. 1.3/12 includes two-and-twenty Y Lei;

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SOME FURTHER GRAMMATICAL POINTS ORM ON O OSS SS F ATI F THE P E IVE PLURAL NUMERALS

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La Y; IX.8.7 this cow legs La Y Sr. The Incidental Material furnishes many more examples, including IM IX.8.6 my sister husband Y; mother mother ‘mother mother our Jack (a) Collective singular forms include IV.9.11 ’ wife Y; our Jack Mary our Jack s [wife who herring Nb Cu Du We La Y Ch Db Sa Wo Gl Nth CARDINAL O Nt Lei R Nth Hu Nf Sf Bk Bd Hrt Ess MxL So 41 In cardinal numbers above tw W Brk Sr K Co D Do Ha Sx. digit may precede the higher, as in VII. 1.12 VII. 1.12 TWENTY-ONE is expressed by a score one-and-twenty Nb Du Y Ch He L So. IM and one St. VII. 1.3/12 includes two-and-twenty Y Lei;

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VI. 13.1 badly functions as an adjective meaning ‘ill’ Nb Cu Du We La Y Ch Db; and IV. 11.4 poison as an adjective meaning ‘poisonous’ Nb Cu Du We LaY C h Db Sa St He Wo W aG lO N tL N th HuC N f Sf Bk Bd Hrt Ess MxL So W Brk Sr K Co D Do Ha Sx. VI. 13.11 drunkard is an attributive adjective meaning ‘drunken’ Y, as also are drucken Nb Cu Du We La Y Gl; drunk La; druffen La Y. IM V.2.11 patchworks functions as an adjective Mon and VI. 13.12 weakly as ‘weak’ La.