Erzya

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Erzya cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : комсь (komś)
    Ordinal : комсеце (komśeće)
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    Cardinal : комсь (komś)

Etymology

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From Proto-Mordvinic *koməś, perhaps inherited from Proto-Uralic *kuśɜ (~*kojmɜćɜ) (“twenty”). Compare Udmurt кызь (kyź), Hungarian húsz, Northern Khanty хөс (høs). Alternatively, but less likely, compounded from Proto-Uralic *koje (male) + *śe (this).

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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комсь (komś)

  1. twenty

Declension

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References

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  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “комсь”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #432 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.