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Etymology
From Proto-Mordvinic *kolmə, from Proto-Uralic *kolme. Cognates include Finnish kolme, Estonian kolm and Hungarian három.
Pronunciation
Numeral
колмо • (kolmo)
- three
1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 42:Nesak koda Iona ulneź kiteń potsonzo kolmo tšit i kolmo vet, isťa i lomań tśoraś uli modań sädeisenze kolmo tšit i kolmo vet.- For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Declension
Indefinite declension of колмо (back-vowel stem (
ума) type)
Definite declension of колмо
References
- Entry #341 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial, Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.
- Indefinite and definite paradigms of колмо (kolmo) in Cygankin, D. V. (1980) Grammatika mordovskix jazykov. Fonetika, grafika, orfografija, morfologija [Mordvinic grammar] (in Russian), Saransk, page 248 (Note: Cygankin did not give translative in the definite paradigm, sg. def. illative was the same as sg. def. dative, otherwise the paradigms are identical to those published by Cygankin.)