Chuvash

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Chuvash numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: тӑваттӑ (tăvattă)
    Ordinal: тӑваттӑмӗш (tăvattămĕš)
    Distributive: тӑватшар (tăvatšar)

Etymology

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Inherited from Bulgar تُوات (tüwet, four),[1] itself inherited from Proto-Turkic *tȫrt (four).[2][3]

Cognate with Khalaj tö̂rt, Turkish dört, Uzbek toʻrt, Bashkir дүрт (dürt) and Yakut түөрт (tüört).

Numeral

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тӑваттӑ or тӑватӑ or тӑват (tăvattă or tăvat̬ă or tăvat)

  1. four

References

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  1. ^ Róna-Tas, András (1976) “A Volga Bulgarıan Inscription from 1307”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae[1] (in Bulgar), volume 30, number 2, page 158
  2. ^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “тӑваттӑ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, pages 184-185
  3. ^ Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “тӑваттӑ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 234

Further reading

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