Moksha

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Moksha cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : колма (kolma)

Etymology

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From Proto-Finno-Ugric *kolme.[1] Cognate with Erzya колмо (kolmo).

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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колма (kolma)

  1. three
    • O. Je. Poljakov (1995) Učimsja govoritʹ po-mokšanski [Let's learn to speak Moksha], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN
      ветешка, колмошка
      veťeška, kolmoška
      approximately five, approximately three

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ kolm”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
  2. ^ kolmă in Heikki Paasonen, Mordwinisches Wörterbuch

Further reading

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  • Indefinite and definite paradigms of колма (kolma) in Cygankin, D. V. (1980) Grammatika mordovskix jazykov. Fonetika, grafika, orfografija, morfologija [Mordvinic grammar] (in Russian), Saransk, page 248