• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    There’s also evidence of an early base-12 system in use for some Indo-Europeans – it’s likely why the English morphology doesn’t become compositional until 13:

    Ten (not compositional)

    Eleven (not compositional)

    Twelve (not compositional)

    Thirteen (related to three-ten)

    Fourteen (relates to four-ten)

    Etc.