оʼн

Ket

Etymology

Ket numbers (edit)
70
 ←  6 7 8  → 
    Cardinal: оʼн
    Counting form: онсь
    Ordinal: онамась
    Distributive: онамся
    Multiplicative: она

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *on (“seven, 7”).[1][2]

Most likely etymologically related to Ket онь (ònʲ, “many, too much”, adjective).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²on/, [ɔʔɔ̯n̥˥˧]

Numeral

оʼн (oˀn) (counting form онсь)

  1. (cardinal number) seven

References

  1. ^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=126&root=config
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 518

Further reading

  • Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 48
  • Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 274
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