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Chuvash
Etymology
From a compound of Proto-Turkic *-m (“ordinal suffix”) + Proto-Turkic *-inč (“ordinal suffix”),[1] compare Bulgar -مْ (-m, “ordinal suffix”) and -شِ (-şi, “ordinal suffix”).[2]
Cognate with Khalaj -minci, Turkmen -minji (“ordinal suffix”).
Suffix
-мӗш • (-mĕš)
- Used to form ordinals of numerals
- пиллӗк (pillĕk, “five”) + -мӗш (-mĕš) → пиллӗкмӗш (pillĕkmĕš, “fifth”)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Levitskaja, Lija Sergejevna (1976) Istoričeskaja morfologija čuvašskovo jazyka [Historical morphology of Chuvash], Moscow, pages 47-49
- ^ Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 40