‘ba’ - This classifier is used to indicate
that the object is round and flat. This ocurs with nouns like - pilo
‘moon’, tiko ‘rupee’, talo ‘round shaped plates used
at the time of Morung festival’, sisa ‘mirror’, etc. |
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talo baro
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‘big plate’
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plate big
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s sa
bare
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‘one mirror’
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mirror one
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talo banye
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‘two plates’
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plate two
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‘do’ - This classifier indicates
that the objects are either animals or vehicles. Hence, it occurs
with nouns like - sihn
‘cow’, subu ‘mithun’, sbo
‘buffalo’, sbi
‘monkey’, gora ‘horse’, pat
‘tiger’, sbi
‘goat’, hogya ‘lion’, kua ‘grasshopper’, saykolo ‘cycle’, basgari
‘bus’, jaji ‘aeroplane’, etc. |
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subu dore
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‘one mithun’
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mithun one
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sibo donye
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‘two buffaloes’
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buffalo two
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saykolo done
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‘two bicycles’
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cycle two
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‘po’ - This classifier occurs with nouns
like - hapo ‘tin container’, sampo ‘log’, tànó
‘bundle of thread used by tailors’ etc. |
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hapo poye
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‘one tin container’
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tin container one
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tàn
ponye
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‘two bundles of thread’
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bundle of thread two
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| ‘du’ - This classifier indicates
that the object is made of bamboo. It occurs with sl
‘bamboo container’, etc. |
ude pee
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‘one house’
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house one
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ayu peye
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‘two stanzas of song’
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stanza two
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| Classifiers Formed
by Duplication : |
| This is found with certain nouns and
in such instances the final syllable of the noun is duplicated and
prefixed to the numeral base. Majority of such nouns occur frequently
in usage. Some examples are cited below : |
anya
nyae
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‘one year’
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year one
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alyi lyine
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‘two pigs’
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pig two
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pica
cahihe
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‘three pots’
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pot three
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pacu cupe
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‘four chicken’
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chicken four
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