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          9.         dn                                             ‘between; among’
                     hini dn                                   ‘between us(excl.du.)’
                     k dn                                      ‘among us (incl. pl.)’
 
          10.       ywn                                        ‘since or from pt. of time or space’
                     h ywn                                 ‘from this’
                     thi ywn                                  ‘from today’
 
          11.       kmi                                      ‘except’
                     pu z km1 pt2                     ‘All2 came5 to4 (the) meeting3
                     kho3 n4 vr5                         ‘except him1’
                     bli1 kmi2                           ‘except2 Balie1’
 
          12.       ln                                             ‘because of’
                     pu ln                                      ‘because of him’
                     tr ln                                     ‘because of rains’
 
          13.       (i)r                                        ‘in spite of’

                     t1 u2 z ir3                     ‘in spite of3 (the) bad2 weathe1’
                     pu1 hi2 z ir3                     ‘in spite of3 his1 efforts2’
 
          14.       pts                                           ‘opposite;against’
                     k1 b2 pu3 pts4 b2           ‘They1 sat2 opposite4 her3’
                     1 mipur2 pts3 b m4       ‘I1 am not4 against3 any body2’
 
           15.      sn                                            ‘instead of’
                     n1 2 sn3 vli4                     ‘You1 go4 instead of3 me2’
 
           16.      s                                                 ‘including’
                     pu s                                           ‘including him’
                     1 s2 kmi3 ph4                  ‘We3 (are) five4 including2 you1’
 
4.0 The Numeral
 
     The Angami numeral system is decimal. The basic cardinals, denoting the numbers one to ten, twenty, hundred and thousand are monomorphemic. The other numerals are derived from compounding these basic cardinals which are absolute forms. There are no absolute forms after thousand.
 
4.0.1 The basic cardinals are:
 
pu ‘one’ thth ‘eight’
kni ‘two’ thpf ‘nine’
s ‘three’ kr ‘ten’
di ‘four’ mpf ‘twenty’
ph ‘five’ kri ‘hundred’
sr ‘six’ i ‘thousand’
thni ‘seven’    
 
4.1.0 When a numeral expressive of a decade (set of ten or tens) is compounded as the first member with a numeral between one and nine, the meaning is the addition of the compounded numerals.
 
Thus,
 
kr pu  : 10+1 : 11
hithth thni : 80+7 : 87
 
4.1.1 When a numeral expressive of a century or a thousand is compounded with a numeral between one and nine, the meaning is the multiplication of the compounded numerals.
 
kri s : 100x3 : 300
kri ph : 100x5 : 500
i pu : 1000x1 : 1000
i s : 1000x3 : 3000
 
4.1.2 After the numeral expressive of a century (set of hundred or hundreds), di ‘and’ is added.
 
          kri ph dA hiph pu : 100 x 5 and 50+1 : 551
 
4.1.3 When forming the compound numerals, the inflectional increment is added to the first member. The following norphophonemic changes take place when is added :
 
          (a) There is no change when the morpheme ends with a vowel other than or A
                hisr + ® hisr
                hish+®hiph
 
          (b) If the final vowel of the first member is , it is dropped.
               kr+®kr
               mpf+®mpf
               sr+®sr
               hithpf+®hithpf
 
          (c) The inflectional increment is dropped when the first member ends with a dipthong or a.
               hithni+®hithni
               hithth+®hithth
 

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