tuoistõn

Livonian

Etymology

Perhaps a fossilized earlier genitive form of tuoi (second) (modern genitive form – tuoiz). Compare Estonian üksteist (eleven) a shortening of üksteistkümmend "one of the second ten" where "ten" gets dropped and "one of the second" remains.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtuoistən/, [ˈt̪ŭ̯o̯iˑst̪ən]

Numeral

tuoistõn

  1. teen (a set of objects of unspecified quantity ranging from 11 to 19)
    • Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “tuoistõnd”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[1] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra
      tuoistõnd sizālõ
      in the teens

Usage notes

LĒL lists only a plural form (tuoistõnd). Both singular and plural are given in the declension table in this entry. Perhaps by error the declension type used for ordinals of teens (tuoistõnz (teenth)) is given in LĒL, evidently tuoistõn would have the same declension type as its simple compounds, e.g., kakštuoistõn, which is given above.

Declension

Declension of tuoistõn (235)
singular (ikšlu’g) plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
nominative (nominatīv) tuoistõn tuoistõnd
genitive (genitīv) tuoistõn tuoistõnd
partitive (partitīv) tuoistõnt tuoistiņi
dative (datīv) tuoistõnõn tuoistõndõn
instrumental (instrumentāl) tuoistõnõks tuoistõndõks
illative (illatīv) tuoistõnõ tuoistiņiž
inessive (inesīv) tuoistõnõs tuoistiņis
elative (elatīv) tuoistõnõst tuoistiņist

See also