нуммьпь

Ter Sami

Ter Sami ordinal numbers

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Cardinal : кыкктҍ (kïkktʼ)     Ordinal : нуммьпь (nummʼpʼ)

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *mumpē, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *mu. Cognates include Northern Sami nubbi, Inari Sami nubbe and Finnish muu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /numʲːpʲ/

Numeral

нуммьпь (nummʼpʼ)

1. second
   • 1961, G.M. Kert, quoting Matrehina Oktyabrina Vladimirovna, Образцы саамской речи (overall work in Russian), page 169:

     А нуммьпь пяйва сӹй вартынҍ чедза.

     And on the second day they went to the herd.

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
• G. M. Kert (1961) “numʼmʼpʼ”, in P. A. Ariste, V. Z. Panfilov, K. K. Kont, editors, Образцы саамской речи [Samples of the Sami speech], Ленинград: Издательство академии наук СССР, page 169