Reconstruction:Proto-Permic/kwiń

This Proto-Permic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Permic

Proto-Permic cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : *kwiń

Etymology

From earlier *kuńm- < *końm- < *koľm-, from Proto-Uralic *kolme. Cognates include Proto-Finnic *kolmi and Proto-Samic *kolmë.

The earlier *koľm- > *kojm- is attested in the ordinal number *kojmäd (“third”).

Numeral

*kwiń (stem *kwińm-)

1. three

Descendants

• Komi:
  • Komi-Permyak: куи́м (kuím)
  • Komi-Yazva: квим (kvim)
  • Komi-Zyrian: куим (kuim)
  • Old Komi: 𐍚𐍣̈𐍙̈𐍜 (kuim)
• Udmurt: куинь (kuiń)
  • Beserman: кўинь (kwiń)

References

• Lytkin, V. I., Gulyaev, E. S., editors (1970), “куим”, in Краткий этимологический словарь коми языка [Brief Etymological Dictionary of the Komi Language]‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka