Word (or morpheme) that is used in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns.
1I am... She stopped to think of the right counting word.
2Mamut said five was Her counting word of hidden authority.
3We say five is Her sacred counting word.
4Five is also the Mother's sacred counting word.
5The number of fingers on one hand, five, is an important counting word in its own right.
6There is a certain prestige in having a lower counting word and Twenty-nine was rather large already.
7Pointing to each mark, he made a mark in the dirt floor as he said the counting word aloud.
8She had used countings words and marked a gouge on a flat piece of antler, and Ayla found the information fascinating.
9"They are good mothers, have many babies, two hands..." Ayla stopped to think of the name of the counting word.
10"Why didn't Dalanar just continue to call himself Zelandonii and make his people another Cave with the next higher counting word?" Ayla asked.
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