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Old Ruthenian
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic четꙑ́ре (četýre), from Proto-Slavic *četỳre, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ketures, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. Cognate with Russian четы́ре (četýre), Old Church Slavonic четꙑре (četyre).
Numeral
чоты́ри • (čotýri)
- four (4)
- Synonym: ·д҃· (·d:·)
Descendants
Further reading
- Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “чотыри”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Н – Ѳ), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 549
- Bulyka, A. M., editor (2016), “четыри”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 36 (фолкга – чорно), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 377
- Tymchenko, E. K. (2003) “чотыри”, in Nimchuk, V. V., editor, Матеріали до словника писемної та книжної української мови XV–XVIII ст. [Materials for the Dictionary of the Written and Book Ukrainian Language of 15ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volumes 2 (О – Я), Kyiv, New York: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., →ISBN, page 484