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—Gmnparatlvii Grammar— the Gaelic Numerals. 229between the digits and dcrj (= Gael, deug or d4ag), as un ar ddeg(eleven ; lit. " one on tea," or " one in addition to ten)," &c.Deug or d^ag ( = Old Gael, dec, deac, deec, deacc) has lost, asshown by the long vowel and unaspirated c (now g), n beforethe tenuis c. This n is preserved in Welsh deng (ten) for dene.The stem, therefore, must be *dencan = *danlcan ;or, since theword occurs as dissyllabic, it may, perhaps, be *de-ankan = *depankan(two fives). Cf. Kuhn's Beitrage, vi. 13. D4c is given inthe Gramvi. Geltica as a form of deich.It is, however, an exceptionalform, and difficult to explain.The corresponding Brit, forms are: Welsh dec, now dog, deng,Corn, dek. Arm. dec, now dek.20. Fichead (twenty).Fichead = Old Gael, fiche (gen. fichet) = *vicents, plur. fichit =*vicintis or *vicentis = *dvi-centis = *dvl-decentis (from a basedvi-dalcantis), agreeing with Lat. viglnti-~*vicinti or *vicenti(cf vicesimus) = *dvi-decenti, from a base dvi-dakanti (cfSchleicher's Compendium, p. 486, and Fick's Worterbuch, i. 783),Gr. e'lKoai, Lacon. /SeiKaTi, Dor. FeiKari, FiKart = *SFi-6aKUTi =*Sfi-SaKavTi (cf 'iKavTtv in Hesychius), Hom. eeiKoai = efetKoai,Skr. vinsati = *dvin-dasati = *dvin-dakanti (the n of dvin- beingprobably the remains of the case-ending of the neut. nom. plur.;cf Ferrar's Comp. Etym., p. 311), Zend uisaiti = *dvi-dasati = *dvidakantl,Goth, twai-tigjus (twenty) from tivai (two) and tigjus,nom. plur. of tigus (ten) for dakio = *dakan (cf Helfenstein's Comp.Gramm., p. 220), A.S. twentig = twegen-tig from A.S. twegen (twain)and tig = Gcoi\i. tigus (ten), Eng. tioenty = twen-ty from ttven= twegen (twain) and tg = tig = tlgus (ten).Fichead is indeclinable in modern Gaelic ; but in the ancientlanguage jichc is declined as follows :Sing.Plur.Nom. fiche JichitGen. fichet fichetDat. fichit fichtibAce. fichit fichteaThe Brit, forms are:—Welsh ugain (twenty) = Old Welsh tucent(= 01d Ga.el. fiche, gen. fichet tor fiche )it),uoeint {= *vicenti), Corn,iigeiifi,ygans, ugans, Arm. ugwent, now ugent.21-29. The numerals from twenty-one to tweaty-nuie areformed by the digits, the prep, ar (on, upon, in addition to)