вуннӑмӗш

Chuvash
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    Cardinal: вуннӑ (vunnă)
    Ordinal: вуннӑмӗш (vunnămĕš)
    Distributive: вуншар (vunš̬ar)

Etymology

From вуннӑ (vunnă, “ten”) +‎ -мӗш (-mĕš, “ordinal suffix”), compare Bulgar [script needed] (wânım, “tenth”).[1]

Cognate with Khalaj ônminci, Turkish onuncu, Uzbek oʻninchi, Bashkir унынсы (onınsı) and Yakut онус (onus).

Adjective

вуннӑмӗш • (vunnămĕš)

  1. tenth

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
  • “вуннӑмӗш”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎ (in Russian-Chuvash, Chuvash-Russian), 1996.
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