Chuvash edit

Chuvash numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: саккӑр (sakkăr)
    Ordinal: саккӑрмӗш (sakkărmĕš)
    Distributive: сакӑршер (sak̬ărš̬er)

Etymology edit

Inherited from Bulgar ڛَكِڔ (sekir, eight),[1] itself inherited from Proto-Turkic *sekiŕ.[2][3]

Cognate with Khalaj səkkiz, Turkish sekiz, Uzbek sakkiz, Bashkir һигеҙ (higeź) and Yakut аҕыс (ağıs).

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

саккӑр or сакӑр (sakkăr or sak̬ăr)

  1. eight

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 200
  2. ^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “саккӑр”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, pages 6-7
  3. ^ Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “саккӑр”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 175

Further reading edit

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