пиллӗкмӗш

Chuvash

Chuvash numbers (edit)
50
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    Cardinal: пиллӗк (pillĕk)
    Ordinal: пиллӗкмӗш (pillĕkmĕš)
    Distributive: пилӗкшер (pilĕkšer)

Etymology

From пиллӗк (pillĕk, “five”) +‎ -мӗш (-mĕš, “ordinal suffix”), compare Bulgar [script needed] (biyelim), [script needed] (béş), [script needed] (bélinc), [script needed] (bélinci, “fifth”).[1]

Cognate with Khalaj bêşminci, Turkish beşinci, Uzbek beshinchi, Bashkir бишенсе (bişense) and Yakut бэһис (behis).

Adjective

пиллӗкмӗш • (pillĕkmĕš)

  1. fifth
    пиллӗкмӗш пайӗ ― pillĕkmĕš pajĕ ― fifth part

References

  1. ^ Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎[1] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 40

Further reading

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