nelʹlʹe

Votic

Votic numbers ^(edit)

	40
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Cardinal: nelʹlʹe     Ordinal: nelʹlʹez, nelʹlʹäiz

Alternative forms

• nelle

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *neljä, from Proto-Uralic *neljä.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈneʎːæ/, [ˈneʎːə̟]
• Rhymes: -eʎːæ
• Hyphenation: nelʹ‧lʹe

Numeral

nelʹlʹe

1. four

Inflection

Declension of nelʹlʹe (type VIII/päive, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	nelʹlʹe	nelʹlʹed
genitive	nelʹlʹä	nelʹlʹije, nelʹlʹii
partitive	nelʹlʹä	nelʹlʹiite, nelʹlʹii
illative	nelʹlʹäse, nelʹlʹä	nelʹlʹiise
inessive	nelʹlʹez	nelʹlʹiiz
elative	nelʹlʹesse	nelʹlʹiisse
allative	nelʹlʹele	nelʹlʹiile
adessive	nelʹlʹelle	nelʹlʹiille
ablative	nelʹlʹelte	nelʹlʹiilte
translative	nelʹlʹessi	nelʹlʹiissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “nellä”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn