[B-Greek] Format of compound numbers

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 07:05:48 EDT 2009


On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 26, 2009, at 4:32 AM, Randall Buth wrote:
>
>  I go with the more colloquial
>> DEKATRIA, DEKATESSARA, DEKAPENTE, DEKAEKS, DEKAEPTA,
>> DEKAOKTW DEKAENNEA.
>>
>
> And, following the line of ducks in a row yet further, what about DEKADEKA?
> Oh no,--  that's EIKOSI. And some says "five and twenty" and some says
> "twenty-five."
>
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
>

DEKADEKA is for people are happy with EIKOSIDEKA for 30.

In you looked in the other direction with your ducks,
I believe that DEKADYO is attested for DWDEKA,
but we still use DWDEKA over here.

Randall

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