deugain

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Welsh

Welsh numbers (edit)
400
[a], [b], [c] ←  30 [a], [b], [c] ←  39 40 41  → [a], [b] 50  → [a], [b], [c]
4[a], [b]
    Cardinal (vigesimal): deugain
    Cardinal (decimal): pedwar deg, (optionally before a nasal or vowel) pedwar deng
    Ordinal: deugeinfed
    Ordinal abbreviation: 40fed

Etymology

deu- (“two”) +‎ ugain (“twenty”)

Pronunciation

Usage notes

  • Despite being written as u, the vowel here is /i̯/ in all parts of Wales.

Numeral

deugain

  1. (cardinal number, vigesimal) forty, two score
    Synonym: pedwar deg

Usage notes

  • Numerals which employ deugain as their final element, i.e. 41 to 59, use a (“and”) to connect it to the preceding element, e.g. un a deugain (“forty-one”), pedwar ar bymtheg a deugain (“fifty-nine”).

Noun

deugain m (plural deugeiniau)

  1. forty
1888, J. A. Morris, Y pulpud bedyddiedig in nghymru, sef deugain o bregethau gan wahanol weinidogion y bedyddwyr [The baptized pulpit in Wales, forty sermons by various Baptist ministers], Abserystwyth: J. Gibson.:

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
deugain ddeugain neugain unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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