ვით

Laz

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Cardinal : ვით (vit)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Kartvelian *at-.

Numeral

ვით • (vit) (Latin spelling vit)

1. ten

   ჰამ მჭკუდი ვით კოჩიზ ჲონჭუნ

   ham mç̌ǩudi vit ǩoçiz yonç̌un

   This meal is enough for ten people

Usage notes

• It takes the forms ვი (vi) (Atina,Chanapeti,Chenneti) and ვითი (viti) (Artasheni,Khopa) in front of some consonant groups. For example; ვი ნდღა (vi ndğa, “ten days”) and ვითი ნდღა (viti ndğa, “ten days”)
• In some localities, the /n/ at the beginning of the following consonant group is lost. For example; ნამობოგამ ფარათე ვით დღაზ ისქიდინენ (namobogam parate vit dğaz iskidinen, “I can live just ten days with the money I earned”).

Further reading

• Kojima, Gôichi (2012–) “vit”, in Temel Lazca-Türkçe Sözlük Taslağı‎^[1] (in Turkish)
• Tandilava, Ali (2013) “ვით”, in Merab Čuxua, Natela Kutelia, Lile Tandilava, Lali Ezugbaia, editors, Lazuri leksiḳoni [Laz Dictionary]‎^[2], online version prepared by Levan Vašaḳiʒe, Tbilisi