Numbers in Cornish

How to count in Cornish, a Brythonic Celtic language spoken mainly in Cornwall in the the southwest of Britain. The numbers are shown in Common Cornish (Kernewek Kemmyn).

Key to abbreviations: m = masculine, f = feminine

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	Cardinal	Ordinal
0	mann, zero
1	onan, unn (before noun)	kensa
2	dew (m) diw (f)	nessa, eyl
3	tri (m) teyr (f)	tressa
4	peswar (m) peder (f)	peswara
5	pymp	pympes
6	hwegh	hweghves
7	seyth	seythves
8	eth	ethves
9	naw	nawves
10	deg	degves
11	unnek	unnegves
12	dewdhek	dewdhegves
13	trydhek	trydegves
14	peswardhek	peswardhegves
15	pymthek	pymthegves
16	hwetek	hwetegves
17	seytek	seytegves
18	etek	etegves
19	nownsek	nowsegves
20	ugens	ugensves
21	onan warn ugens	kensa warn ugens
22	dew/diw warn ugens	nessa warn ugens
23	tri/teyr warn ugens	tressa warn ugens
24	peswar/peder warn ugens	peswara warn ugens
25	pymp warn ugens	pympes warn ugens
26	hwegh warn ugens	hweghves warn ugens
27	seyth warn ugens	seythves warn ugens
28	eth warn ugens	ethves warn ugens
29	naw warn ugens	nawves warn ugens
30	deg warn ugens	degves warn ugens
31	uunek warn ugens	unegves warn ugens
32	dewdhek warn ugens	dewdhegves warn ugens
33	trydhek warn ugens	trydhegves warn ugens
34	peswardhek warn ugens	peswardhegves warn ugens
35	pymthek warn ugens	pymthegves warn ugens
36	hewtek warn ugens	hewtegves warn ugens
37	seytek warn ugens	seytegves warn ugens
38	etek warn ugens	etegves warn ugens
39	nownsek warn ugens	nownsegves warn ugens
40	dew ugens	dew ugensves
50	hanter kans deg ha dew ugens	hanter kansves degves ha dew ugens
60	tri-ugens	tri-ugensves
70	deg ha tri ugens	degves ha tri ugens
80	peswar ugens	peswar ugensves
90	deg ha peswar ugens	degves ha peswar ugens
100	kans	kansves
1000	mil	milves
100	kans	kansves
200	dew kans	dew kansves
300	tri hans	tri hasnves
400	peswar kans	pewsar kansves
500	pymp kans	pymp kansves
600	hwegh kans	hwegh kansves
1,000	mil	milves
2,000	diw vil	diw vilves
1 million	milvil milyon	milvilves milyonves
1 billion	bilyon	bilyonves
1 trillion	trilyon	trilyonves

Hear some Cornish numbers:

Notes

Feminine nouns take soft mutation after unn (one), e.g. unn jydh (one day), unn voos (one table), but masculine nouns do not.
2, 3 and 4 have to agree with the gender of the thing counted, and soft mutation is triggered by dew and diw (two), and aspirate mutation by tri and teyr (three). For example dew gei (two dogs), diw vugh (two cows), tri honin (three rabbits), teyr hath (three cats)

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Links

Information about Cornish numbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_numerals
http://www.kesva.org/assets/files/KDL/kdl21.pdf

Numbers in Celtic languages

Proto-Celtic, Proto-Brythonic, Old Irish, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh, Gaulish, Breton, Cornish, Cumbric, Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh

Numbers in other languages

Alphabetical index | Language family index

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