- existential statements of amounts ("there are N so-and-so" → so-and-so N.verb)
- N repetitions of an action
- increasing something by a factor
could verbs derived from numbers signify?
Modern forum culture is kind of introduce the idea of 'stating agreement, where each person stating such says which number in the line he has' (seconded, thirded, but I have not seen any higher numbers.)
My mind does go in a few directions with regards to this:
- time-span related things, "I seven work on that now" → I will work for seven days on that
- rank-related things, maybe intransitive (he tens → he is the boss of ten people), maybe transitive (he tens technicians → he is the boss of ten technicians)
- performing a specific number of culturally significant obligations? Verbed ordinals could signify specific obligations.
- Worship of some kind?
Other ideas would be interesting as well.
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