четә

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cete"

Nganasan

Nganasan cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : четә (čjetə)

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *tättə, from an unknown source or an unknown substrate language. Cognate with Tundra Nenets тет (tyet°) and Northern Selkup тэ̄тты (tētty).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡ʃʲetə]

Numeral

четә • (čjetə)

  1. four

References

  • N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) “четә”, in Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 213