Universal #1755

Legacy number: 1755

 Number  1750
 Original  If the distinction between ordinal and cardinal forms for the number 1 at some decade is by suppletion, then it is also by suppletion for the same numeral at lower decades.
 Standardized  IF the distinction between ordinal and cardinal forms for the number 1 at some decade is by suppletion, THEN it is also by suppletion for the same numeral at lower decades.
 Keywords  numeral, ordinal, cardinal, suppletion
 Domain  word formation
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  sample of 100 languages, listed in the appendix
 Source  Stolz 1999

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Discussion
Notes
E.g. French: vingt et un ‘21’ – vingt et unième ‘21st’;un ‘1’ – premier ‘1st’.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
E.g. French:
vingt et un '21' – vingt et unième '21st';
un '1' – premier '1st'.