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A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF URALI
Sam Mohan Lal
3.10.10. Ten
      {patt-}
       pan-, α pa-, -pad
       patt-, α pad-
3.10.10.1 a pan- occurs before the numeral base -onR
      pan-onR (5.18,19) > pannonRu ‘eleven’
3.10.10.2 α pa- occurs before the numeral base -re
      pa-red (5.9,19) > pae·u ‘twelve’
3.10.10.3 α-pad occurs after the numeral adjective base of the numerals two to eight.
      iru-pad (5.15,19) > iruvadu ‘twenty’
      muC-pad (5.12,19) > muppadu ‘thirty’
      na:l-pad (5.8,19) > na:ppadu ‘forty’
3.10.10.4 α patt- occurs elsewhere.
      patt-a:yira > patta:yira ‘ten thousand’
      patt-lecca (5.19) > pnttu lecca ‘ten lakhs’
      patt-a: (5.19) > patta:u ‘ten persons’
3.10.11 α pad-
Numbers from thirteen to eighteen are formed by the addition of a morpheme -an- which functions as a link between the numeral base ‘pad’ and the ‘respective numeral’
It is noted that the above said morpheme -an has three allomorphs namely -i-, -in- and -an-. The occurrence of the morphemes are as follows.
         i) -i- occurs before /m/ and /n/
         ii) -in- occurs before -anj
         iii) -an- occurs before the numerals six to nine
      pad-i-mu:nR (5.19) > padimu:nRu ‘thirteen’
      pad-i-nal (5.19) > padina:lu ‘fourteen’
      pad-in-anj (5.19) > padinanju ‘fifteen’
      pad-an-a:R (5.19) > padana:Ru ‘sixteen’
      pad-an-ė: (5.19) > pad-an-ė:u ‘seventeen’
      pad-an-e (5.19) > padaneu ‘eighteen’
      pad-an-ombad (5.19) > padanombadu ‘nineteen’
3.10.12. Hundred
      {nu:R}
       nu:tt-, -nu:R

                                       

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