Shakespear, John: A grammar of the Hindustani language (London, 1826)

HINDUSTANI LANGUAGE.

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41. The Ordinals are,

lst.

2d.

3d.

4th,

oth.

• .

o p

C

lor 1^-J

C y'

.

cc

• • • •

6th. .

7th....^yL

8th.

9th.

10th..

And so forth, bj adding ^ or or U to the cardinals,
as before noticed at paragraph 13.

42. The aggregate or collective numbers are,

A four.

Afve.

t «v
ijoS

A score.
A forty.

• v

*

LJL-

A hundred.!»L*

A thousand.j!y&

c

A hundred thousand fi
A ten millions. .... . ff
43. In a distributive sense the numerals, whether car-
dinals or ordinals, are repeated ; as, dSA one hy one,

C^ L'

by tens, f'j&f every twelfth. Proportionals

and reduplicatives are formed by adding \A or, more
especially with regard to the folds or rows of any material,

o

or !«J or to the modified forms of the cardinals as
used in composition, and in some cases to the unaltered

c o K '

forms ; so, \^S\ single, douhie, l^-J trehle, quadruple,

quintuple, \p ^ sextuple, \y^» septuple^ octuple,

ninefold, Ls^j tenfold, &c. but L! and !^ are also

/ c c >>

used for single, hy and !y^j and !^j and !j!^j for double,

c c c / C x c

!jftJ and ^ for treble, and for quadruple: and jj->-

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