Motsi (1) poshi kana chimwe iri ivara rehuwandu,chiperengo chehuwandu, uyewo izita rechiperengo chinomirira huwandu uhu. Chinomirira huwandu hwechinhu chimwe chete. Motsi kana kuti chiposhi zvinorevawo pfungwa yokuva chikamu chimwe kubva muhumwe hunobva mumubatanidzwa hwezvinhu. So muenzaniso, chidimbu chemutsara chakareba nechikamu chimwe chehubatanidzwa hwehurebu (chezvikamu zvehurebu).
Muzvidzidzo zveMasvomhu,chiperengo chehuwandu ichi chinomirirawo zvinotevera:
- Pachinyakare, ichi chiperengo chohuwandu (ordinal number) chokutanga, kunyangwe zvazvo mazuvano maitiro anogamuchirwa noruzhinji ndeokushandisa chiperengo chehuwandu chinomirira kusavapo kwezvinhu,0, saicho chiperengo chokutanga.
Mamwe mazita: bodzi, posi, potsi, modza, bodza, imwe, moshi, mosi
- Pazuva rechimotsi vana vechikoro vanoratidzwa dzimba dzekugara.
- Nhangande zvinoreva chinhu chimwe chiri chenga, ringava shizha kana vhudzi kana dombo.
- -dzamuka (Be, or be
able to be, removed in one piece - e.g. sadza, clay, mamera manyoro).
Chivakashure cheEnglish chinotiproto chingaturikirwa sei? Proto zvinorevafirst, foremost, earliest form of
Prototype rinokwanisa kunzimhando yechiposhi kanamhando yechimotsi kanamotsi wemhando.Zvichida pane kutodzana pamazwi anoti:posi,poshi,bodzi,mhodzi,bodzwa,chibodzwa kanambodzwa?
- Chewa vanotikamodzi (once) kureva munhu kuita kana kuverengwa kwechinhukamwe.VaKongo vanotimoxi (n. one).
- VaGiryama vanoti(w)akwandza (first, beginner) vachireva wekutanga.VaZigula neVaGiryama vanotiumwenga (n. Oneness; unity; union; singular).
- VaBukusu vanotindala (one - in counting).Liikhumi naa ndala (n. Eleven) kurevagumi nerimwe.VaWanga vanotindala (n. one).
- VaNyole vanotibamunyumba ndala (n. people of same house, family).Enda endala (of the same mother).Ngiemboon vanotitàʼ (one).
- Digo neGiryama vanotimwenga (one) kurevamumwe. Sokutimutu m-mwenga kureva munhu mumwe.Kwama vanoti sene kana sondo (n. one).