Old Armenian edit

Old Armenian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : ինն (inn)
    Ordinal : իններորդ (innerord)
    Adverbial : իննիցս (innicʿs)
    Collective : իննեքին (innekʿin)

Etymology edit

From Proto-Armenian *enun-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nun-o-, the zero-grade of *h₁néwn̥.

Numeral edit

ինն (inn)

  1. nine
    ինն մայիսիinn mayisithe ninth of May, or 9th May

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Descendants edit

  • Armenian: ինը (inə)

References edit

  • Petrosean, Matatʿeay (1879) “ինն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Awetikʿean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ինն”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979) “ինն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 302