кавто

Erzya
Erzya cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : кавто (kavto)
    Ordinal : омбоце (omboće)

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.

Numeral

кавто • (kavto)

  1. 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?
      Ťese uľi ve ćorińe, konań uľiť veťe šužoń kšenze da kavto kalonzo, ańśak ńeť meźe zńarońeń?
      “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 [Erzya-Russian dictionary], 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.
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