FINNIC NUMERALS FOR ‘8’ AND ‘9’ AND A POSSIBLE PARALLEL FROM SAMOYED
The paper deals with a suffix contained in the Finnic numerals for ‘eight’ and ‘nine’, such as the Estonian kahe-ksa and ühe-ksa. Taking into consideration the forms of some southern varieties of Finnic, such as Votic and Livonian, it is proposed to reconstruct the Proto-Finnic suffix *-ksama/*-ksa...
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Estonian Academy Publishers
2022
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