zazpi
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Basque[edit]
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| Cardinal: zazpi Ordinal: zazpigarren Multiplier: zazpikoitz Distributive: zazpina Collective: zazpikote Fractional: zazpiren | ||
Etymology[edit]
Unknown, but maybe from Proto-Basque *bortza-z-bi (literally “five with two”), with initial syllable apheresis and early reduction of *biga (“two”) to bi.[1] Often compared with Iberian sisbi (“seven”).[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Numeral[edit]
zazpi
Declension[edit]
Declension of zazpi (numeral, ending in vowel)
Derived terms[edit]
- zazpidun (“seventh”) (music)
- zazpiehun (“seven hundred”) (see there for further derivation)
- zazpigarren (“seventh”)
- zazpigarrenez (“for the seventh time”)
- zazpigarrengo (“seventh”)
- zazpihortz
- zazpiki (“baby born two-months premature”)
- zazpiko (“having seven parts”)
- zazpikote (“group of seven”)
- zazpina (“seven each”)
- zazpinaka (“in groups of seven”)
- zazpira (“seven each”)
- zazpirazka (“in groups of seven”)
- zazpiren (“seventh”)
- zazpisukalde
- zazpitan (“seven times”)
- zazpiurren
- zazpizango
References[edit]
- ^ “zazpi” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk
- ^ Orduña A., Eduardo (2011) “Los numerales ibéricos y el protovasco [Iberian numerals and Proto-Basque]”, in Veleia[1] (in Spanish), volume 28, pages 125–139