Welsh

Numeral

deusaith m, f ‎(ordinal deuseithfed)

1. fourteen
   • 1714: unknown author, unknown poem, final four lines

     Un Mil seithgant a scrifennant
     A deu saith mlwydd, oed ein Harglwydd
     Os bydd holiad pwy wnai’r Caniad,
     Rhyw wael Gristion, dyna ddigon.

     One thousand seven hundred they wrote
     And fourteen years, our Lord’s age
     If there be query who made the call,
     Some poor Christian, that is all.

   • 1958: David James Bowen, Gruffudd Hiraethog a’i Oes, page 28 (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru)

     Deusaith yn cynnal alaeth,
     A Duw â’r pymthegfed aeth . . .

     Fourteen holding a lament,
     And God with the fifteenth went . . .

Synonyms

• (fourteen): pedwar ar ddeg m, pedair ar ddeg f (“four on ten”, vigesimal); un deg pedwar (“one ten four”, decimal)

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