Numbers and counting

[Fredrik]

> I think here, Gothic would probably use ordinal numbers (fruma, 
anþar,
> þridja, ?*fidworþa - first, second, third, fourth).  This is the
> practice used for the names of Paul's epistles:
> 
> Du Teimauþaiau ·a· dustodeiþ.
> Du Teimauþaiau frumei dustodeiþ.
> "The First [Letter] to Timothy begins." (I Timothy begins.)
> 
> Du Kaurinþaium anþara dustodeiþ.
> "The Second Letter to the Corinthians begins." (II Corinthians 
begins.)
> 
> Du Kaurinþium ·a· ustauh. Du Kaurinþium frume[i] melida ist us
> Filippai, swe qeþun sumai; iþ mais þugkeiþ bi silbins apaustaulaus
> insahtai melida wisan us Asiai.
> "The 1st [Letter] to the Corinthians ends. The First [Letter] to the
> Corinthians is written from Philipae, according to some; but it 
seems
> rather according to the apostle's own statement to have been written
> from Asia."
>
So how it is said is in reallity: first object, second object, third 
object etc. and not object one, object two, object three etc, right?
This seems to me to be a more natural way of coounting object as well.
And since it obviously is attested that seems to be the correct way.


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