тӑваттӑмӗш

Chuvash
Chuvash numbers (edit)
40
 ←  3 4 5  → 
    Cardinal: тӑваттӑ (tăvattă)
    Ordinal: тӑваттӑмӗш (tăvattămĕš)
    Distributive: тӑватшар (tăvatšar)

Etymology

From тӑваттӑ (tăvattă, “four”) +‎ -мӗш (-mĕš, “ordinal suffix”), compare Bulgar [script needed] (tüwetim, “fourth”).[1]

Cognate with Khalaj tö̂rtminci, Turkish dördüncü, Uzbek toʻrtinchi, Bashkir дүртенсе (dürtense) and Yakut төрдүс (tördüs).

Adjective

тӑваттӑмӗш • (tăvattămĕš)

  1. fourth
    тӑваттӑмӗш бригада ― tăvattămĕš brigada ― fourth brigade

References
  1. 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

Further reading
  • “тӑваттӑмӗш”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎ (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.
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