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Estonian has a suffix -kond, which can be attached to some numerals, such as 'ten', 'hundred', 'thousand':</div>
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Seal oli kümmekond / sadakond / tuhatkond inimest.</div>
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there be.pst.3sg ten+kond / hundred+kond / thousand+kond person.prt</div>
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'There were about ten / about hundred / about thousand people.'</div>
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-<i>kond</i> comes from the word *kunta; in present-day Estonian in occurs only as a suffix and is used in words like perekond 'family' or teaduskond 'faculty' and has a meaning of 'group'.</div>
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Best wishes,</div>
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Liina</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>Saatja:</b> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> Denys T. <denys.teptiuk@gmail.com> nimel<br>
<b>Saadetud:</b> teisipäev, 22. veebruar 2022 16:42<br>
<b>Adressaat:</b> Amanda Kann <amanda.kann@su.se><br>
<b>Koopia:</b> lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Teema:</b> Re: [Lingtyp] Approximative numerals with emotive content</font>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="font-size:14px">Colloquial Russian has something similar, namely 100500
<i class="">stopjatsot, stopicot </i><span class="" style="font-style:normal">(colloq.)</span><i class=""> </i>‘one hundred five hundred’ pro ‘one hundred thousand five hundred’. 100500 is usually used in mocking contexts to express large amounts. Here’s a
random example from the internet [probably conveying the speaker’s annoyance]:</span></div>
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<div class=""><i class="" style="font-size:14px">Kak obyèno nado sdelat’ <b class="">stopjatsot</b> fotok, ètoby poluèilas’ odna!</i></div>
<div class=""><span class="" style="font-style:normal; font-size:14px">how usually need make.inf hundred.five.hundred photo.gen.pl in.order succeed.prs.3sg one</span></div>
<div class=""><span class="" style="font-size:14px">‘As usual, one has to make 100500 photos to get a good one!’</span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="font-size:14px">Denys </span></div>
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<div class="">On 22. Feb 2022, at 16:27, Amanda Kann <<a href="mailto:amanda.kann@su.se" class="">amanda.kann@su.se</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span class="" style="font-size:11pt">Dear typologists,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:11pt">(Apologies to those who have already seen this query through LinguistList!)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:11pt; background-color:white">I'm looking for corresponding expressions (in any language) to the approximative numeral phrases in the examples below – conventionalized numeral expressions which typically express
larger, approximate numeric quantities and encode some kind of emotive function.</span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:11pt"><br class="">
<span class="" style="background-color:white">I'm interested in the composition and value of these numerals, as well as their emphatic and emotive functions – if there are other expressions in the numeral domain in your language(s) that carry a similar illocutionary
force, I would love to hear about them as well!</span><br class="">
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</span><span class="" style="font-size:11pt; background-color:white">Swedish [swe]: (from Bloggmix 2013, accessed through </span><span class="" style="font-size:11pt"><a href="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/korp" class="" style="color:rgb(149,79,114); text-decoration:underline"><span class="" style="color:rgb(33,118,245); background-color:white; text-decoration:none">http://spraakbanken.gu.se/korp</span></a><span class="" style="background-color:white">)</span><span class="" style=""><br class="">
<span class="" style="background-color:white">Det finns nämligen femtioelva sorters myror.</span><br class="">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:11pt; background-color:white">'There are actually many types of ants' (lit. 'There are actually fifty-eleven types of ants')</span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:11pt"><br class="">
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<span class="" style="background-color:white">French [fra]: (Lavric 2010,<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span class="" style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004253247_008" class="" style="color:rgb(149,79,114); text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="color:rgb(33,118,245); background-color:white; text-decoration:none">https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004253247_008</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:11pt; background-color:white">)</span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:11pt"><br class="">
<span class="" style="background-color:white">Il n’y a pas trente-six façons de voir la chose.</span><br class="">
<span class="" style="background-color:white">'There aren't very many ways of seeing the thing' (lit. 'There aren't thirty-six ways of seeing the thing')</span><br class="">
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<span class="" style="background-color:white">Danish [dan]: (from OpenSubtitles2018, accessed through </span></span><span class="" style="font-size:11pt"><a href="http://opus.nlpl.eu/" class="" style="color:rgb(149,79,114); text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="color:rgb(33,118,245); background-color:white; text-decoration:none">http://opus.nlpl.eu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:11pt; background-color:white">)</span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:11pt"><br class="">
<span class="" style="background-color:white">Han fortalte mig 117 gange, at han ikke gjorde hende noget.</span><br class="">
<span class="" style="background-color:white">'He told me a thousand times that he didn't do anything to her' (lit. 'He told me 117 times that he didn't do anything to her')</span><br class="">
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<span class="" style="background-color:white">English [eng]: (from OpenSubtitles2018, accessed through </span></span><span class="" style="font-size:11pt"><a href="http://opus.nlpl.eu/" class="" style="color:rgb(149,79,114); text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="color:rgb(33,118,245); background-color:white; text-decoration:none">http://opus.nlpl.eu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:11pt; background-color:white">)</span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:11pt"><br class="">
<span class="" style="background-color:white">For the umpteenth time, we are not getting a dog.</span><br class="">
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:11pt">Thank you very much in advance for any tips, examples or comments!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:11pt">Best regards,</span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:11pt"></span></div>
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