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Mongolian
Etymology
Compare Buryat -дахи (-daxi), -тахи (-taxi), -дохи (-doxi), -тохи (-toxi). Compare Turkic -ta-qï; compare Tuvan -дагы (-dagı), -тагы (-tagı); Kazakh -дағы (-dağy), -тағы (-tağy); Uyghur ـدىكى (-diki), ـتىكى (-tiki); Turkish -daki, -taki; etc.
Pronunciation
Clitic
дахь • (daxʹ)
- (after oblique) Used to connect a substantive with its location (either spatial or temporal) attributively
- ханан дахь нүх ― xanan daxʹ nüx ― an opening in the wall
- гадаад орнууд дахь дипломатууд ― gadaad ornuud daxʹ diplomatuud ― diplomats abroad
- (after nominative) Used to form an ordinal numeral from the original cardinal
- зургаа дахь парламент ― zurgaa daxʹ parlament ― the sixth parliament
Usage notes
Contrasted with -дугаар (-dugaar) and -дүгээр (-dügeer), дахь and дэх (dex) are used for cardinals in a more temporal sequence, e.g. гурав дахь сар (gurav daxʹ sar, “the third month”) vs гуравдугаар сар (guravdugaar sar, “March”); хоёр дахь үүд (xojor daxʹ üüd, “the second door ”) vs хоёрдугаар үүд (xojordugaar üüd, “door two”), etc.
Inflection
back vowel | front vowel |
дахь daxʹ | дэх dex |
Derived terms