Central Kurdish edit

Central Kurdish cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : یەک (yek)
    Ordinal : یەکەم (yekem)
    Ordinal II : یەکەمین (yekemîn)

Etymology edit

From Proto-Iranian *Háywakah, derivative of Proto-Iranian *Háywah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háywas. Related to Persian یک (yek).

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

یەک (yek)

  1. one; 1

References edit

  • Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2000) “*¹aiu̯a-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume I, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 136