дахь

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Mongolian

MongolianCyrillic
᠊ᠳᠠᠬᠢ
(-daki)
дахь
(daxʹ)

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)

  1. (after oblique) Used to connect a substantive with its location (either spatial or temporal) attributively
    ханан дахь нүхxanan daxʹ nüxan opening in the wall
    гадаад орнууд дахь дипломатуудgadaad ornuud daxʹ diplomatuuddiplomats abroad
  2. (after nominative) Used to form an ordinal numeral from the original cardinal
    зургаа дахь парламентzurgaa daxʹ parlamentthe 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.

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