The ordinal numerals seem to be expressed in many ways.
4.4.2.1
suffixing - vadi, vari to the cardinal numerals.
riņivadi
second one
(non. masc.)
riņdivari
second one
(pl. hun. masc.)
4.4.2.2
by the use of words which denote eldest, middle and youngest when used with
nouns denoting relations.
roņi?e
ma:ńga
‘first daughter
paņuwa
ma:ńga
‘second daughter’
icci ma:ńga
‘third daughter’
4.4.2.3
by the use of words which denote first and last when referring to buildings
in a Kuvi village set up.
te:ŗi
illu - ‘first/last house in the village’
4.4.3
Fractions:
The fractions most frequently used are probably borrowed from Oriya. They
are
pa:v
‘quarter’
adda
‘half’
ti:nipa:v
‘three-fourth’
and are used most frequently with measurements of cloth grain, etc., while
the first two are used with currency also.
For fractions of a rupee the words used are
no:punja
‘three-fourth of a rupee’
ţakkanara
‘one and a half rupee’
ţakkano:punja
‘one rupee and
seventy-five paise’
4.4.4
Classifiers:
Classifiers are a class of bound morphemes which occur with and indicate the
semantic class of the nouns. The classifiers in Kuvi occur with numerals
above three. When the noun is non-human the classifier used is goţţa
and when the noun is human the classifier is jańa.
ti:nigoţţa
·a:luhủ
‘three calves’
sa:rigoţţa
ma:rka
‘four trees’
ti:nijaņņa
po:da
‘three girls’
sa:rijaņņa
a:lahâ
‘four boys’
When the numerals are used it
is quite usual to drop the plural suffix.
ti:nigoţţa
a:lu
‘three calves
sa:rijaņa
o:la
‘four boys’
4.4.5
Partitives:
Partitives are a class of morphemes
which express quantity in mass nouns. These are usually words which denote
measurements of mass, length.
ro aa
manji
‘one aa’
(measure) of rice’
ro ha:ta hemburi
‘one cubit measure of cloth’
soho maņa
manjihĩ
‘six measures of rice’
4.4.6
Quantifiers :
quantifiers are a class of words
used with nouns which may be mass or count nouns to express quantity which is
indeterminate.
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