IOO THE NUMERAL.
(Jilto-) suji, " a line ; " for rope-like things.
,, tomai, "a hut thatched with matting;" for godowns (fire-proof store-houses).
The native auxiliary numerals up to " ten " inclusive take the Japanese numerals before them, thus : futa- hashira, mi-kumi, mu-tomai. After " ten " they take the Chinese numerals, thus : ju-ni-Jiashira, ni-jil-kumi, shi- ju-hachi-tomai. No euphonic changes take place. 11 162. In Classical Japanese, human beings are counted by means of the native numerals with the unexplained syllable ri attached. Of these words the colloquial language has only retained the following :
hltori, " one person ; " futari, " two persons ; "
yottari (for yotari,) " four persons ; "
which are used concurrently with, but oftener than, their Chinese synonyms ichi-nin, ni-nin and yo-nin. * IT 163. Questions respecting number and quantity are asked by means of the word iku, which is, however, not used alone, but always in combination, thus :
ikit-ra, how much?, lit. "about how much," ra being the particle of vagueness already mentioned in p. 26 as helping to form certain plurals. . iku-tabi ? how often ? / iku-tsu ? how many ?
Aku-nin P } . , ,, ,
^iku-tari? said of people ;
iku-mai ? ,, said of flat things ; iku-hon? ,, ,, said of cylindrical things ; and so on with all the auxiliary numerals.
- See p. 93 for the substitution, even before Chinese auxiliary
numerals, of Japanese yo for Chinese shi y "four."
