aarun-un

Yoruba

Yoruba numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: àrún     Counting: aárùn-ún     Adjectival: márùn-ún     Ordinal: karùn-ún     Adverbial: ẹ̀ẹ̀marùn-ún     Distributive: márùn-ún márùn-ún     Collective: márààrùn-ún     Fractional: ìdámárùn-ún

Etymology

Derived from owó + àrún.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /āá.ꜜɾṹ/

Numeral

aárùn-ún

1. five (used when counting)

Usage notes

• According to the Standard Yoruba Orthography approved by the Joint Consultative Committee on Education in June 1974, to show the lengthening of a nasal vowel and not a syllabic nasal, a hyphen should be inserted: aárùn-ún and not aárùnún. Nonetheless, the latter, in addition to aárùn, is still used.

Alternative forms

• aárùnún, aárùn

Derived terms

• márùn-ún

References

• Bamgboṣe, Ayọ, Orthographies of Nigerian Languages, pages 43-56