пиллӗкмӗш

Chuvash

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Chuvash numbers (edit)
50
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    Cardinal: пиллӗк (pillĕk)
    Ordinal: пиллӗкмӗш (pillĕkmĕš)
    Distributive: пилӗкшер (pilĕkšer)

Etymology

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From пиллӗк (pillĕk, five) +‎ -мӗш (-mĕš, ordinal suffix), compare Bulgar [script needed] (biyelim), [script needed] (béş), [script needed] (bélinc), [script needed] (bélinci, fifth).[1]

Cognate with Khalaj bêşminci, Turkish beşinci, Uzbek beshinchi, Bashkir бишенсе (bişense) and Yakut бэһис (behis).

Adjective

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пиллӗкмӗш (pillĕkmĕš)

  1. fifth
    пиллӗкмӗш пайӗpillĕkmĕš pajĕfifth part

References

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  1. ^ Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 40

Further reading

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  • пиллӗкмӗш”, in Электронлă сăмахсар[2] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.