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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF URALI
Sam Mohan Lal
         a:R- ‘six’
         ė:- ‘seven’
         e- ‘eight’
         ombad- ‘nine’
         patt- ‘ten’
         nu:R- ‘hundred’
         a:yira- ‘thousand’
         lecca- ‘lakh’
Numeral Stems
3.10.1. One
      {onR-}
       or-, orutt-, onR-
3.101.1. or- occurs as an adjective before a noun.
      or-mara (5.19) > oru mara ‘one tree’
      or-pammu (5.19) > oru pammu ‘one fruit’
      or-a: (5.19) > ora:u ‘one person’
3.10.1.2. orutt- occurs before the masculine singular -an (3.6.1.1) and the feminine singular -i (3.6.2.6).
      orutt-an (5.22) > oruttä ‘one man’
      orutt-i > orutti ‘one woman’
3.10.1.3. on R- occurs elsewhere.
      onR- (5.19) > onRu ‘one’
      pan-onR (5.18,19) > pannonRu ‘eleven’
3.10.2. Two
      {r-}
       iru-, eRu-, re-
3.10.2.1. - iru occurs before the numeral pad
      iru-pad (5.15,19) > iruvadu ‘twenty’
3.10.2.2. eRu -occurs before the numeral -nu:R
      eRu-nu:R (5.19) > eRun:Ru ‘two hundred’
3.10.2.3. re- occurs elsewhere.
      re- (5.19) > reu ‘two’
      re-a: (5.19) > rea:u ‘two persons’
      re-a:yira > rea:yira ‘two thousand’

                                       

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