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number morphemes in words for units

Rick,
Since "zezidi" means 'week' ('seven-day'), what's to keep "fezidi" (hectare) from being understood as 'two-day'?

How would you know whether something like "tufefezidi" means "tufe-fezidi" ('hecto-hectare'/'*myriare') or "tufefe-zidi" ('10^22-day')?  Are such words given a specific definition, one way or the other, or does the software figure them out on the fly?

This is only one example, using current words, but others may exist (at least potentially), specifically with "zezidi".  

I suggest that no number morphemes be part of basic measure words like "fezidi" (thus excepting "zezidi").  

Or does the whole issue even matter, since no one is likely to want to use the words above?

Steven