кавто
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Erzya
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Etymology
From Proto-Mordvinic *kavtə, from Proto-Uralic *kakta~*käktä (“two”). Cognates include Moksha кафта (kafta), Finnish kaksi (kahte-), Lule Sami guokta, Eastern Mari кок (kok), Udmurt кык (kyk), Hungarian két, kettő.
Pronunciation
Numeral
кавто • (kavto)
- two
- 1910, Makar Evsevievich Evseviev, Gospoda nashego Iisusa Hrista Svjatoe Evangelie ot Matfeja, Marka, Luki i Ioanna na mordovskom jazyke, page 241:
- Тесэ ули ве цёрыне, конань улить вете шужонь кшензэ да кавто калонзо, аньсяк неть мезе зняронень?
- Tese uľi ve ćorińe, konań uľiť veťe šužoń kšenze da kavto kalonzo, ańśak ńeť meźe źńarońeń?
- “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”
Declension
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References
- B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “кавто”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс, Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
- Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial, Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.
- Entry #227 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.