Notes: | Contains the negator nep.
Can be used as a noun, an adjective or an adverb (Hemon 1975, 145-46).
Ex. en nebeut á dezyou ez finissomp … hon amser 'within a few days we will finish our life-time' M. 413
Note, that 'few' can also be expressed with a construction including bennak 'any, some, -ever, -soever':
Mod. Bret. Eur vag vihan bennag a zo e porzig Oranj 'there a few small boats in the little harbour of Oranj' (lit. there is some little boat…) (Hemon 1975, 142).
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