Erzya

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Erzya cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : кемень (kemeń)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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кемень (kemeń)

  1. ten
    • 1821, Novum Testamentum Mordvinice litt. cyrill.[1], page 232:
      Сясе ульнесь такодамо ломань, кона ульнесь ормасо колонь кемень кавксо іеть.
      One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

Declension

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References

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  • 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.