Collective number

This article or section needs to be revised: collective numbers (German collective numbers or collective number words) are words like "dozen" (a summary of 12 things), not company numbers like "two, three". The Latin-German term for the words here is "sociative number" (available once on google books, namely in [books.google.de/books?id=EZ3yCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA817]: "f) sociative numbers: selbander 'together (with one second person) ', self-third' as a third with two others' "[...]; g) Collective numbers: a dozen , a shock "
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Collective numbers ( collectives ) express, as numerals, the togetherness - the collective - of the objects counted.

In German, collectives usually have the form of a prepositional phrase ( in pairs ). Expressions based on the pattern 'noun + same + ordinal number' (unflexed) and 'noun + self + other ' (unflexed, meaning: “for two”) are perceived as outdated , such as B. Anna selbdritt or Maria selbander .
There is also the collective number both , as the remainder of a West Germanic dual .

Turkic languages

In historical Turkic languages such as Kipchak (14th century) a regular suffix formation according to the pattern ordinal + "egü / ağu" seems to have existed: bir-egü (with oneself), ik-egü (" for two "), üç- egü (" to three "), dörd-egü (" to four ") etc.
In modern Turkic languages, however, the form is hardly productive and appears quasi-lexicalized (e.g. Uighur : ikegü ) or in a strongly contracted form in the Idioms of the north-eastern and north-central group (e.g .: ekkü: / ekö :, ikü: / ecö :).

literature

1. ↑ Abu Hayyan: Kitabu'l-Idrak li-lisani'l Atrak . quoted n. Gerard Clauson: The Turkish Numerals. In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 1959 pp. 19-31.