Southern Selkup edit

Southern Selkup cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : тэт
    Ordinal : тэ́тэмҗэл
Regional variants of тэт
Chumel dialects
Narym тэт
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob тиэтт

Etymology edit

From Proto-Samoyedic *tettə. Compare to Nganasan четә and Tundra Nenets тет (tyet°).

Numeral edit

тэт (tet) (Narym)

  1. four
    • 2022, Grogorij Korotkih, Современный язык нарымских селькупов (overall work in Russian), page 15:
      Тэбня́ мана́ндо тэт пот варӷ эк.
      The brother is four years older than me.

Further reading edit

  • G.V. Korotkih (2022) Современный язык нарымских селькупов [The modern language of Narym Selkups], Tomsk: Соиздательство ценных книг «Грасион», →ISBN, page 67 of 150

Southern Yukaghir edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Yukaghir *tət. Cognates include Northern Yukaghir тэт (tet).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈtet]
  • Rhymes: -et
  • Hyphenation: тэт

Pronoun edit

тэт (tet) (possessive determiner тэт, possessive pronoun тэтльэ, emphatic pronoun тэтидиэ)

  1. thou, you (singular)

Declension edit

See also edit

Determiner edit

тэт (tet)

  1. thy, your (singular possessor)

See also edit

References edit

  • I. A. Nikolaeva, V. G. Shalugin (2002) Словарь Юкагирско-русский и русско-юкагирский (Верхнеколымский диалект) [Yukaghir-Russian and Russian-Yukaghir dictionary (Upper Kolyma dialect)], Saint Petersburg: Дрофа, →ISBN, page 70
  • Elena Maslova (2003) A Grammar of Kolyma Yukaghir, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 555