Chuvash edit

Chuvash numbers (edit)
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5
    Cardinal: аллӑ (allă)
    Ordinal: аллӑмӗш (allămĕš)
    Distributive: аллӑшер (allăš̬er)

Etymology edit

Inherited from Bulgar ال (ellü, fifty),[1] itself inherited from Proto-Turkic *ellig (fifty).[2][3] Possibly related to алӑ (ală, hand).

Cognate with Khalaj əllig, Turkish elli, Uzbek ellik and Bashkir илле (ille).

Numeral edit

аллӑ or алӑ or ал (allă or ală or al)

  1. fifty

References edit

  1. ^ Erdal, Marcel (1993) Die Sprache der wolgabolgarischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 163
  2. ^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “аллă”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume I, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, pages 34-35
  3. ^ Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “аллă”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 24

Further reading edit

  • аллӑ”, in Электронлă сăмахсар[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.