Southern Altai

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Etymology

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From тогус (togus) +‎ он (on), from Common Turkic *toqquz-ōn (literally nine tens). Cognate with Azerbaijani doxsan, Kyrgyz токсон (tokson), Kazakh тоқсан (toqsan), Tatar туксан (tuqsan), Turkish doksan, Turkmen togsan, Uzbek toʻqson, Uyghur توقسان (toqsan), etc.

Numeral

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тогузон (toguzon)

  1. ninety

References

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N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “тогузон”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ, Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN