TY - JOUR N2 - The article discusses the late Middle English replacement of the ordinal number other by the Romance loanword second. The major cause of the change was the ambiguity and polyfunctionality of the older native word. The study is based on the language material from the Dictionary of Old English Corpus, the Middle English Compendium and the Anglo-Norman Dictionary L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/101750/PDF-MASTER/LS%2038_10%20Molencki.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/101750 PY - 2017 EP - 144 DO - 10.24425/linsi.2017.117047 A1 - Molencki, Rafał PB - Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach VL - vol. 38 DA - 2017 T1 - On the rise of the ordinal number second in Middle English SP - 137 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/101750 T2 - LINGUISTICA SILESIANA ER -