THE NUMERAL SERIES. 527 



.it* the numeral for two, and lupeni means twice; cf. the Dictionary, page 181. 

 In the hst of the numerals above ten, the ending -anta, -ant in ta-unepanta 

 is a locative case, nasalized from what Avould apjiear in a substantive as 

 -atat, or -ata, -at; and ta-unepanta has to be interpreted as upon the tew 

 vunepni ta-unepanta iq>o)i the forty. Every numeral has its distributive 

 form, corresponding exactly to to the scpteni, deni of Latin; it is inflected 

 and abbreviated exactly like the absolute form, and shows the same func- 

 tions, though in a distributive sense. When two or more numerals form a 

 compound numeral, and no classifier is added, as is done in the numbers 

 divisible by ten, the first one, not the following, is reduplicated whenever the 

 whole number is spoken of distributively. Thus when I say, Gim me thirty 

 eggs every day, this will be rendered by ndandan'sh tc'-unip napal nanuk wai- 

 tash nish lui; not by ndandan'sh tetunip, nor by ndanish teti'inip napal. 



The same principle of incorporation of several terms, wliich are inti- 

 mately connected together into one phrase, we observe when a classifying 

 term is added distributively to the numeral. It then sutfices to reduplicate 

 the classifier, though it would not be incorrect to do the same also with the 

 first numeral of the number in question. The additive particle pen, pan 

 again, and, should be used after ta-unepni with its multiples only (or after 

 ta-unep, // this is abbreviated from ta-unepni); but some Indians insert it 

 ungrammatically after ta-unepanta and its decadic multiples as well. In the 

 numerals above one hundred, only the units are inflected by case, not the 

 hundreds nor the decades or tens; cf the ta unep standing for ta unepsinta, 

 in the ntxmeral series, under 101, 434, and 1889. When units are added to 

 ten and its multiples, the smaller number can also stand first, followed by 

 pan, pen or not. Forty-three may thus be expressed in diti'erent ways: 



vunepni ta-unepanta ndAn p^-ula 

 vunt'pni fci-unepni pen nd4n pe-ula 

 ndan pen vundpni ta-unep pe-ula 

 ndan vunepni td-unep pd-ula 



The fraction one-half, na-igshtani, na'gshta, is usually placed after the 

 classifier: ta-unep4nta lap pe-ula nagshta tala nu pewi I paid twelve dollars 

 and a half. 



