ҫиччӗмӗш

Chuvash
Chuvash numbers (edit)
70
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    Cardinal: ҫиччӗ (śiččĕ)
    Ordinal: ҫиччӗмӗш (śiččĕmĕš)
    Distributive: ҫичшер (śičšer)

Etymology

From ҫиччӗ (śiččĕ, “seven”) +‎ -мӗш (-mĕš, “ordinal suffix”), compare Bulgar [script needed] (ciyetiş, “seventh”).[1]

Cognate with Khalaj yîettiminci, Turkish yedinci, Uzbek yettinchi, Bashkir етенсе (yetense) and Yakut сэттис (settis).

Adjective

ҫиччӗмӗш • (śiččĕmĕš)

  1. seventh

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