Old Armenian edit

Old Armenian cardinal numbers
 <  40 50 60  > 
    Cardinal : յիսուն (yisun)
    Ordinal : յիսներորդ (yisnerord)

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From *յինսուն (*yinsun), from *յինգիսուն (*yingisun), *հինգիսուն (*hingisun), from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷēḱomth₂, *pénkʷedḱomt.

Numeral edit

յիսուն (yisun)

  1. fifty

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Armenian: հիսուն (hisun)

References edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “յիսուն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “յիսուն”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “յիսուն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 493