ӄусь

Ket

Etymology

**Ket numbers ^(edit)**
		10
		1	2 →	10 →
Cardinal: ӄусь inan, ӄоʼк anim Counting form: ӄусям inan, ӄогда anim Ordinal: ӄөтильсь, купкась Multiplicative: синь

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *qus ~ *qut (“one”, inanimate-class numeral).^[1]^[2]^[3]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /¹qus/, [quˑs͉ʲ˧]

Numeral

ӄусь (qūsʲ) inan (counting form ӄусям)

one (used denoting inanimate nouns)

Usage notes

For counting animate nouns, ӄоʼк (qoˀk) is used.

References

^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=%2fDATA%2fYENISEY%2fYENET&text_number=815&root=config
^ https://starlingdb.org/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=new100&morpho=0&basename=new100%2Fyen%2Fyen&first=1&off=&text_word=one&method_word=equal&sort=number
^ Vajda, Edward; Werner, Heinrich (2022), Comparative-Historical Yeniseian Dictionary (Languages of the World/Dictionaries; 79, 80), Muenchen: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 725

Further reading

Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 132
Kotorova, Elizaveta; Nefedov, Andrey (2015), Большой словарь кетского языка, Münich: LINCOM, →ISBN, page 323