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Ordinal numbers may be written in English with numerals and letter suffixes: 1st, 2nd or 2d, 3rd or 3d, 4th, 11th, 21st, 101st, 477th, etc., with the suffix acting as an ordinal indicator. Written dates often omit the suffix, although it is nevertheless pronounced.
The ordinal category are based on ordinal numbers such as the English first, second, third, which specify position of items in a sequence. In Latin and Greek, the ordinal forms are also used for fractions for amounts higher than 2; only the fraction 1 / 2 has special forms.
After all natural numbers comes the first infinite ordinal, ω, and after that come ω+1, ω+2, ω+3, and so on. (Exactly what addition means will be defined later on: just consider them as names.) After all of these come ω·2 (which is ω+ω), ω·2+1, ω·2+2, and so on, then ω·3, and then later on ω·4.
Exception to this rule are the ordinal numerals first, second and third. If the basic word ends on the letter t and we add the suffixes for ordinal numerals, then a double t is generally produced. For the ordinal numerals seventh and eighth, we reduce some of the letters of the basic number, for example: osum > osmi (eighth), sedum > sedmi ...
2 Date pronunciation. 4 comments. 3 2th, etc. 2 comments. 4 No zeroth? 2 comments. 5 Greek forms. 1 comment. 6 Can we add more examples from other languages? 1 comment.
The ordinal numbers are difficult to reconstruct due to their significant variation in the daughter languages. The following reconstructions are tentative: [ 20 ] "first" is formed with * pr̥h₃- (related to some adverbs meaning "forth, forward, front" and to the particle * prō "forth", thus originally meaning "foremost" or similar) plus ...
At that point it should meet ω which should be directly under 0. The spoke beginning with 0 would continue with ω, ω 2, ω 3, etc. until it reaches the center which would be ω ω. The spoke beginning with 1 would continue with ω·2, ω 2 ·2 ω 3 ·2, etc.. Between these, new spokes should begin in the second turn, ω+1 would continue with ...
The numbers from 5 onwards do not decline for gender. They also behave somewhat differently when modifying a noun. When placed in the nominative or accusative case, the following noun is put in the genitive plural case, while the numeral remains in the nominative/accusative. In the other cases, the numeral and noun are both in the same case.