тёжань

Erzya

Etymology

From earlier [Proto-Mordvinic?] *ťužəń, inherited from Pre-Mordvinic *tušanti~*tušamti, borrowed from Proto-Baltic *tū́(k)stantis (whence Latvian tū́kstantis, Lithuanian tūkstuõt(i)s). Proto-Finnic *tuhat borrowed from the same Baltic root.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tʲoʒanʲ/

Numeral

тёжань • (ťožań)

  1. thousand

References
  • B. A. Serebrennikov; R. N. Buzakova; M. V. Mosin (1993), “тёжань”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
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