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Re: [romanceconlang] Carrajena numbers



--- Padraic Brown <elemtilas@hidden.email> wrote:
> --- Adam Walker <carrajena@hidden.email> wrote:
> 
> > parru          parru
> > chimvi         findu
> 
> > And I don't like the fact that both four and
> > fourth are parru, but I'm not sure what to do 
> > about that.
> 
> Why do anything about it!? ;) How are chimvi and
> findu related, if at all?
> 
> Padraic.
> 

Perhaps I shan't.  I can't think of any good reason
why *everything* in C-a should be to my liking.  Findu
and chimvi are related.

Chimvu is derrived from VL *cinque ci>chi nque>mvi.

Findu is derived from L quintas qui>fi (same as above
but without the voicing environment) and t>d.

Adam