Chuvash edit

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    Cardinal: ҫирӗм (śirĕm)
    Ordinal: ҫирӗммӗш (śirĕmmĕš)
    Distributive: ҫирӗмшер (śirĕmš̬er)

Etymology edit

Inherited from Bulgar جيرم (ciyermi),[1] itself inherited from Proto-Turkic *yẹgirmi (twenty).[2][3]

Cognate with Khalaj yigirmi, Turkish yirmi, Uzbek yigirma, Bashkir егерме (yegerme) and Yakut сүүрбэ (süürbe).

Numeral edit

ҫирӗм (śirĕm)

  1. twenty

References edit

  1. ^ Erdal, Marcel (1993) Die Sprache der wolgabolgarischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 163
  2. ^ Fedotov, M. R. (1996) “ҫирӗм”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), volume II, Cheboksary: Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, pages 121-123
  3. ^ Jegorov, V. G. (1964) “ҫирӗм”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ čuvašskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Chuvash Language] (in Russian), Cheboksary: Čuvašskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 214

Further reading edit

  • ҫирӗм”, in Электронлă сăмахсар[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.