-ax

Etymology
Perhaps extracted from.

Etymology
Adjectival form of a k-stem, from  from words of the form. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Suffix

 * 1) ; -ish, -y

Etymology
From common dialectal -aʿš, -āš, from, whence. There is evidence that the underlying had already been vocalised in this ending before the same happened as a general development in Maltese (hence also the lack of it in the spelling). We find the same vocalisation in some modern Arabic dialects; compare 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * Sometimes shortened to, but still stressed.
 * Sometimes shortened to, but still stressed.

Suffix

 * 1)  -teen.

Usage notes

 * With numbers from 13 to 19, the form is derived from the long attributive form in of the underlying simple number. Slight vocalic changes may occur (as the loss of the e in  above).
 * Attributively, that is before a noun, numbers in add the additional ending . See that lemma.