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- The Number One
- Two
- Three
- Four to Nineteen
- Multiples of Ten
- One Hundred
Ān(“one”) was declined exactly like an ordinary strong adjective: Note that āncould be declined weak and follow the noun, and when that happened, it had the meaning of "only", "alone", "no other than".
The declension of “two” was quite irregular: As can be seen from the table above, the neuter nominative/accusative could be either tƿā or tū. In poetry, neuter nouns were usually used with tū. However, in prose, they often occurred with tƿā instead, especially in Late West Saxon prose, where tūwas almost completely absent.
Note that the form þrī was only used in the West Saxon dialect. In the other dialects, þrēowas the nominative/accusative form for all three genders.
The numbers from four (fēoƿer) onwards usually weren't declined at all: Þā fēoƿer tīda sind ƿinter, lengten, sumer, and hærfest (“The four seasons are winter, spring, summer, and fall”), Ealle cattas sƿulton eahta sīðum (“All cats have died eight times”). When they were declined, they followed the inflection of plural i-stem nouns: nominative/accus...
The tens from 20 onwards were formed by combining a smaller numeral with -tiġ: “twenty” is tƿēntiġ (think tƿēġen-tiġ), “thirty” is þrītiġ (*þrī-tiġ), “forty” is fēoƿertiġ (*fēoƿer-tiġ), and so on, as if modern English had twoty, threety, fourty, fivety, etc. However, that's where the morphology of these numbers stops being intuitive. The prefix hun...
Old English had three words for “hundred”: hund, hundred, and hundtēontiġ. Hund and hundred were mainly used as multiplicands, as in tƿā hund / tƿā hundred (“two hundred”). There was apparently no discernible distinction between hund and hundred or when they were used, except that hund occurs seven times as often as hundred. Meanwhile, hundtēontiġ ...
Numerals. In Old English, the names of numbers from 1 to 12 are represented by their roots. The numbers from 13 to 19 were formed by adding the bases of numerals, which denote units, and the numeral tīen (tyn, tēn), for example: fiftīene - 15; eahtatīene - 18; nigontīene - 19 and others.
Numbers used to denote the denominator of a fraction are known linguistically as "partitive numerals". In spoken English, ordinal numerals and partitive numerals are identical with a few exceptions. Thus "fifth" can mean the element between fourth and sixth, or the fraction created by dividing the unit into five pieces.
28 de abr. de 2022 · English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Numerals, Cardinal numbers, Numeration, Comparative linguistics, Historical linguistics. Publisher. Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton. Collection. printdisabled; internetarchivebooks. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. xiii, 329 p. : 24 cm.
20 de jun. de 2022 · Category. : Old English numerals. Old English terms that quantify nouns. Category:Old English numeral forms: Old English numerals that are inflected to display grammatical relations other than the main form.
Abstract. In the course of its history, English underwent a significant structural change in its numeral system. The number words from 21 to 99 switched from the unit- and -ten to the ten-before-unit pattern. This change is traced on the basis of more than 800 number words.
