Welsh questions
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2022 7:01 pm
I've been delving into the morass of Welsh numbers, with their seemingly limitless forms. One question that has come up is the gender of reciprocals. I've been looking for examples on the internet, and the results are mixed. For 'two fifths', I find dau bumed, so masculine, but for 'three fifths' I find not only the masculine tri phumed but also the feminine tair pumed. Am I looking at poorly learnt Welsh, or is it perhaps the influence of the feminine noun rhan 'part', perhaps fighting a dominating influence of the first three reciprocals (hanner, traean and chwarter) being masculine?