century, events, deaths

[ualarauans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at ...> wrote:
>
> Or alds (like Icelandic öld, which can mean both "era, age" and
> "century", nítjánda öldin "the 19th century"), or if the context
> didn't make it clear whether you were meant "era" or "century", you
> could always go with the obvious: taihuntehund jere "a hundred 
years",
> twa hunda jere "two hundred years", etc.

alds seems OK. BTW I wanted to construct an example with "the 20th 
century" and it turned out that I don't know how to 
say "twentieth". "nineteenth" is *niuntaihunda (weak adj.), from 
*niuntaihun "19" and not to confuse with niuntehund "90". In writing, 
you could probably just write sa .k. aiws / so .k. alds, but how to 
say it? The same concerns "30th", "40th" etc. Any ideas?

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