Welsh edit

Welsh numbers (edit)
 ←  15 16 17  → [a], [b], [c], [d], [e], [f]
    Cardinal (vigesimal): un ar bymtheg
    Cardinal (decimal): un deg chwech
    Ordinal (vigesimal): (non-standard) unarbymthegfed
    Ordinal: unfed ar bymtheg
    Ordinal abbreviation: 16eg

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From unarbymtheg (16) +‎ -fed ([-th]).

Adjective edit

unarbymthegfed (feminine singular unarbymthegfed, plural unarbymthegfed, not comparable)

  1. (ordinal number, nonstandard) sixteenth
    • [1832, William Owen Pughe, A Dictionary of the Welsh Language explained in English: with numerous illustrations from the literary remains and from the living speech of the Cymmry : To which is prefixed a Welsh grammar, Volume 1 (overall work in English), Gee, pages 106–107:
      Absolute numbers.Numerals.Ordinals.
      Unarddeg Unarddegwaith Unarddegfed
      Deuarddeg Deuarddegwaith Deuarddegfed
      Triarddeg Teirarddegwaith Triarddegfed
      PedwararddegPedeirarddegwaithPedeirarddegfed
      Pymtheg Pymthegwaith Pymthegfed
      Unarbymtheg Unarbymthegwaith Unarbymthegfed
      Absolute numbers.Numerals.Ordinals.
      eleven eleven times eleventh
      twelve twelve times twelfth
      thirteenthirteen timesthirteenth
      fourteenfourteen timesfourteenth
      fifteen fifteen times fifteenth
      sixteen sixteen times sixteenth
      ]
    • 1888 March, Iolo Morganwg, “Dosparth yr Awgrym”, in Y geninen cylchgrawn cenedlaethol, number Ceninen Gwyl Dewi, page 56:
      Awrgrym gair ac ymadrodd, sef llythyr, ar y degfed, ar yr unarbymthegfed, ac a yr ugeinfed, ac ar y pedairarhugeinfed.
      Suggest a word and a phrase, namely a letter, on the tenth, on the sixteenth, and on the twentieth, and on the twenty-fourth.

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
unarbymthegfed unchanged unchanged hunarbymthegfed
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.