[The Number Concept by Levi Leonard Conant]@TWC D-Link bookThe Number Concept CHAPTER III 41/103
tsomara yiri-tie = 1 on the foot. 12.
gar yiritie = 2 on the foot. 20.
tsuena yiri-die = ended both feet. As is here indicated, the form of progression from 5 to 10, which we should expect to be "hand-1," or "hand-and-1," or some kindred expression, signifying that one hand had been completed, is simply "1 on the other." Again, the expressions for 11, 12, etc., are merely "1 on the foot," "2 on the foot," etc., while 20 is "both feet ended." An equally interesting scale is furnished by the language of the Maipures[78] of the Orinoco, who count 1.
papita. 2.
avanume. 3.
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