сиэлдь

Southern Selkup

Southern Selkup cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : сиэлдь (sield’)
    Ordinal : сэддедэбдэтти (seddjedebdetti)
Regional variants of сиэлдь
Chumel dialects
Narym хельҗь (xjel’ǯ’)
Tyuj dialects
Upper Ob сиэлдь (sield’)

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *säjʔwə, from Proto-Uralic *ćäjćemä.

Related to Finnish seitsemän. Cognates include Nganasan сяйбә (sjajbə), Northern Selkup сельчы (sjeljćy) and Kildin Sami кыджемь (kydžjem’).

Pronunciation

Numeral

сиэлдь (sield') (Upper Ob)

  1. seven

Further reading

  • G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 73 of 109
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