Chuvash edit

Chuvash numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: пӗр (pĕr)
    Ordinal: пӗрмӗш (pĕrmĕš)
    Distributive: пӗрер (pĕrer)

Etymology edit

From пӗр (pĕr, one) +‎ -мӗш (-mĕš, ordinal suffix), compare Bulgar [script needed] (bîrim), [script needed] (birinc, first).[1]

Cognate with Turkish birinci, Uzbek birinchi, Bashkir беренсе (berense) and Yakut биирис (biiris).

Adjective edit

пӗрмӗш or пӗрремӗш (pĕrmĕš or pĕrremĕš)

  1. first

References edit

  1. ^ Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 40

Further reading edit

  • пӗрмӗш”, in Электронлă сăмахсар[2] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.