West Makian edit

West Makian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : awoideng

Etymology edit

From awoi- +‎ edeng (two), with vowel elision or assimilation, from an earlier expected *awoiedeng.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

awoideng

  1. twenty

Alternative forms edit

References edit

  • F. S. Watuseke (1982) West Makian, a Language of the North-Halmahéra Group of the West-Irian Phylum[1], Anthropological Linguistics
  • James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary[2], Pacific linguistics
  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[3], Pacific linguistics