Many of the names of the basic numbers can be traced etymologically to words referring to the human body ("finger", "hand" etc.) or to arithmetic operations (6 = "1 + 5" etc.).
許多基本數詞的名稱其詞源可以追溯到人體的名稱(如："手指"，"手"等等)，或則算術運算的結構(6="1+ 5"等)。