PREGLED KABARDINSKE GRAMATIKE - Cryptm.org

Matasović: A Short Grammar of KabardianINVARIABLE WORDSNUMERALSCardinal numbers:zə 1 xə 6t'wə 2 blə 7śə 3 yə 8pł'ə 4 bġ w ə 9tx w ə 5 pś'ə 10 śa 100Numerals sometimes merge with the monosyllabic noun which they precede, e. g. zəš"one horse", but zə žam "one cow". In the first example, the morpheme final ə of šə"horse" had been deleted, and the numeral received the stress; in the second example,the morpheme final -a- of ža "cow" was preserved, together with its stress. Numeralscan also merge with the noun they follow using the relative conjunction -yə-. Theycan also take case endings:māz-yə-bġ w ə-ra māx w -yə-bġ w ə-č'amonth-rel.-9-and day-rel.-9-INST"In nine days and nine months"Kabardian has the decimal counting system; numerals above ten are formed with thestem pś'ə- "ten" and ones, e. g. pś'ək' w əz "eleven", pś'ək' w ət' "twelve", etc. There aretraces of the vigesimal system, manifested in the formation of tens as products ofmultiplication of the number twenty, t'waś': t'waś'-yə-t' "forty", t'waś-yə-ś "sixty", etc.When counting above twenty, the counted noun (or noun phrase) is normally repeatedbefore both constituent parts of the complex number:c'əx w śaś'-ra c'əx w -yə-ś-ra "thirty three men"man thirty-and man-suf.-three-andOrdinal numbers:yāpa 1. yaxāna 6.yat'wāna 2. yablāna 7.yaśāna 3. yayāna 8.yapł'ān a 4. yabġ w āna 9.yatx w āna 5. yapśāna 10.Ordinal numbers behave like relational adjectives, so they can take the suffix -ray(used for the formation of adjectives): yatx w ānaray "fifth" etc. Adverbial numerals areformed from cardinal numbers by apophony, e. g. za "once", śa "thrice", but they can27