ẹẹsan-an

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Yoruba

[edit]
Yoruba numbers (edit)
90
 ←  8 9 10  → 
    Cardinal: ẹ̀sán
    Counting: ẹẹ́sàn-án
    Adjectival: mẹ́sàn-án
    Ordinal: kẹsàn-án
    Adverbial: ẹ̀ẹ̀mẹsàn-án
    Distributive: mẹ́sàn-án mẹ́sàn-án
    Collective: mẹ́sẹ̀ẹ̀sàn-án
    Fractional: ìdámẹ́sàn-án

Etymology

[edit]

Derived from owó + ẹ̀sán.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Numeral

[edit]

ẹẹ́sàn-án

  1. nine (used when counting)

Usage notes

[edit]
  • According to the Standard Yoruba Orthography approved by the Joint Consultative Committee on Education in June 1974, to show the lengthening of a nasal vowel and not a syllabic nasal, a hyphen should be inserted: ẹẹ́sàn-án and not ẹẹ́sànán. Nonetheless, the latter, in addition to ẹẹ́sàn, is still used.

Alternative forms

[edit]

Derived terms

[edit]

References

[edit]
  • Bamgboṣe, Ayọ, Orthographies of Nigerian Languages, pages 43-56