Grammatical features / gender power & prefix derivation

Richard Wordingham richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com
Sat Mar 6 15:52:42 CST 2021


On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 11:36:19 +0000
Richard Wordingham via CLDR-Users <cldr-users at unicode.org> wrote:

> Looking closer to hand, how is assimilation of numbers to the counted
> object to be handled?  It has effects much like gender.  An English
> example is "an amp" v. "a milliamp"; in a receding style of Welsh, we
> have "deng medr" (10 m) v. "deg cilomedr" (10 km).

And there's a normative example in Italian _uno steradiante_, which is
about fifteen times as common as _un steradiante_.

Richard.


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