Bulgar edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *sāyïn (every).[1] Cognate to Chuvash -сем (-sem), Kazakh сайын (saiyn), Turkmen sāýyn, as opposed to Common Turkic plurals in *-ler like Turkish -ler.

Suffix edit

-ڛَم (-sem)

  1. (Volga Bulgar) Suffix creating plurality.

References edit

  • Hakimzjanov, Farid Sabirzjanovich (1976) “New Volga Bulgarian Inscriptions”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae[2] (in Bulgar), volume 40, number 1, page 174
  1. ^ “Archived copy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2021 October 28 (last accessed), archived from the original on 11 March 2005