Erzya edit

Erzya cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : кемень (kemeń)

Etymology edit

From Proto-Mordvinic *keməń, inherited from Proto-Finno-Permic [Finno-Volgaic] *küme-ne. Cognates include Moksha кемонь (kemoń), Finnish kymmenen, Livonian kim.

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Numeral edit

кемень (kemeń)

  1. ten
    • 1821, Novum Testamentum Mordvinice litt. cyrill.[1], page 232:
      Сясе ульнесь такодамо ломань, кона ульнесь ормасо колонь кемень кавксо іеть.
      Śaśe uľńeś takodamo lomań, kona uľńeś ormaso koloń kemeń kavkso іeť.
      One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

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References edit

  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “кемень”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #1350 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.