Ter Sami edit

Ter Sami ordinal numbers
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    Cardinal : кыкктҍ
    Ordinal : нуммьпь

Etymology edit

From Proto-Samic *mumpē, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *mu. Cognates include Northern Sami nubbi, Inari Sami nubbe and Finnish muu.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

нуммьпь (nummʼpʼ)

  1. second
    • 1961, G.M. Kert, quoting Matrehina Oktyabrina Vladimirovna, Образцы саамской речи (overall work in Russian), page 169:
      А нуммьпь пяйва сӹй вартынҍ чедза.
      And on the second day they went to the herd.

Further reading edit

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
  • G. M. Kert (1961) “numʼmʼpʼ”, in P. A. Ariste, V. Z. Panfilov, K. K. Kont, editors, Образцы саамской речи [Samples of the Sami speech], Ленинград: Издательство академии наук СССР, page 169