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--- On Sun, 12/20/09, Capsicum <thomas@hidden.email> wrote: >I just found the numbers 'decapenta' for fifteen and 'decapenta bis' for >thirty in the medieval book 'Ruodlieb'. Are there more of these numbers >in medieval Latin? I don't know if that would fit in my language but I >still like it. Kerno, no Greek numbers there. There are some forms of Celtic descent that are found alongside forms of Latin descent: padguar (4) alongside coueduar, pynck (5) alongside couynck. Generally speaking, the system is base 20, though there are hints of other bases (3 especially, though that could be sacro-magical). They did borrow and eventually naturalise the Greek middle participle. Like, "annus po disckemend lê rem", we have just begun to study the matter. Well, that's not really middle voice, is it! Let's try "me ar h-accapemendmi ces gouechtialles", gonna get me some food! What a difference a wee little preverb can make! Padraic >Capsicum