Ido
- -a, -ma (short forms, used on digits)
Etymology
Borrowed from French -ième, Italian -esimo, Spanish -ésimo. Compare -imo from the same source.
Suffix
-esma
- used to form ordinal numbers
- un (“one”) + -esma → unesma (“first”)
- dek e du (“twelve”) + -esma → dek-e-duesma (“twelfth”)
Derived terms
Ido terms suffixed with -esma