Chuvash

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Chuvash numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: улттӑ (ulttă)
    Ordinal: улттӑмӗш (ulttămĕš)
    Distributive: улттӑшар (ulttăš̬ar)

Etymology

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Inherited from Bulgar الط (altı, six),[1] itself inherited from Proto-Turkic *altï (six).[2][3]

Cognate with Khalaj alta, Turkish altı, Uzbek olti, Bashkir алты (altı) and Yakut алта (alta).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ultːə], [ultə], [ult]

Numeral

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улттӑ or ултӑ or улт (ulttă or ult̬ă or ult)

  1. six

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 155
  2. ^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “улттӑ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, pages 279-280
  3. ^ Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “улттӑ”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 274

Further reading

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