malcina-taban

Afar

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[a], [b] ←  60	←  69	70	71  →	80  →
		7
Cardinal: malcina-tabán     Ordinal: malcina-tabanháytu

Etymology

Univerbation of malciná (“seven”) +‎ tabán (“ten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /malħiˌnataˈban/ [mʌlħɪˌnʌtʌˈbʌn]
• Hyphenation: mal‧ci‧na‧ta‧ban

Noun

malcina-tabán m 

1. seventy

Usage notes

• When used as a determiner, the genitive case is used:

  Malcina-tabaníh númu. ― Seventy people.

• When counting, the predicative case is used.

Declension

Declension of malcina-tabán
absolutive	malcina-tabán
predicative	malcina-tabána
subjective	malcina-tabán
genitive	malcina-tabaníh
Postpositioned forms l-case malcina-tabánal k-case malcina-tabának t-case malcina-tabánat h-case malcina-tabánah

References

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “malcinà-taban”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 197