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ri (pa)di ‘forty’
     
  ri pongo  ‘fifty’
     
  ri coro ‘sixty’
     
  ri-ni ‘seventy’
     
  ri-ca ‘eighty’
     
  ri-ku ‘ninety’

The decade ‘thirty’ is expressed by süro/süo, the former, which is composed of -sü of kosü ‘three’ and (r)o of cüro ‘ten’, being preferred.
 
When numerals are compounded the extremely productive set of desired numerals that results may acquire their meaning either by addition or by multiplication of the compounded numerals. When the relationship between the juxtaposed numerals is one of addition, both the compounded numerals take the suffix -o.
 

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 cüro / cüa kalio  = 10 + 1 = 11
     
  cüro / cüa kaxio = 10 + 2 = 12
     
  cüro / cüa pongoo  = 10 + 5 = 15
     
  cüro / cüa canio = 10 + 7 = 17
     
  cüro / cüa cokuo = 10 + 9 = 19
     
  maküio kalio = 20 + 1 = 21
     
  maküio kaxio  = 20 + 2 = 22
     
 

maküio pongoo

= 20 + 5 = 25
     
  süro kalio = 30 + 1 = 31
     
  süro kaxio  = 30 + 2 = 32
     
  süro pongoo = 30 + 5 = 35
     
  ri (pa)di kalio = 40 + 1 = 41
     
  ri (pa)di kaxio  = 40 + 2 = 42
     
  ri (pa)di pongoo  = 40 + 5 = 45
     
  ri pongo kalio = 50 + 1 = 51
     
  ri pongo kaxio = 50 + 2 = 52
     
  ri pongo pongoo = 50 + 5 = 55
     
  ri coro kalio  = 60 + 1 = 61
     
  ri coro kaxio = 60 + 2 = 62
     
  ri coro pongoo  = 60 + 5 = 65
     
  ri-ca kalio = 80 + 1 = 81
     
  ri-ca kaxio = 80 + 2 = 82
     
  ri-ca pongoo = 80 + 5 = 85
     
  ri-ca canio = 80 + 7 = 87
     
  ri-ni kalio = 70 + 1 = 71
     
  ri-ni kaxio  = 70 + 2 = 72
     
  ri-ni pongoo = 70 + 5 = 75
     
  ri-ni canio = 70 + 7 = 77
     
  ri-ku kalio = 90 + 1 = 91
     
  ri-ku kaxio = 90 + 2 = 92
     
  ri-ku pongoo = 90 + 5 = 95
     
  ri-ku canio = 90 + 7 = 97
     
  krio cüroo = 100 + 10 = 110
     
  krio maküio = 100 + 20 = 120
     
  krio süroo kaxio = 100 + 30 + 2 = 132
     
  krio ri(pa)dio kosüo  = 100 + 40 + 3 = 143
     
  krio ri pongoo padio  = 100 + 50 + 4 = 154
     
  krio ri coro pongoo  = 100 + 60 + 5 = 165
     
  krio ri-nio coroo = 100 + 70 + 6 = 176
     
  krio ri-cao canio  = 100 + 80 + 7 = 187
     
  krio ri-kuo cokuo = 100 + 90 + 9 = 190

Whereas the relationship of addition is thus morphologically marked, that of multiplication is not. It is expressed by apposition.
 

546.

 kri kosü = 100 x 3 = 300
     
 

(cf. krio kosüo  

= 100 + 3 = 103)
     
  kri kaxi = 100 x 2 = 200
     
 

(cf. krio kaxio 

 

 = 1000 + 2 = 102)

 

 
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