чотыри

Old Ruthenian

Old Ruthenian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : чоты́ри (čotýri)     Ordinal : чотвертый (čotvertyj)

Alternative forms

• четы́ри (četýri), чаты́ри (čatýri)

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic четꙑ́ре (četýre), from Proto-Slavic *četỳre, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ketures, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. Cognate with Russian четы́ре (četýre), Old Church Slavonic четꙑре (četyre).

Numeral

чоты́ри • (čotýri)

1. four (4)

   Synonym: ·д҃· (·d:·)

Descendants

• Belarusian: чаты́ры (čatýry)
• Carpathian Rusyn: четы́ри (četŷ́ry), шты́ри (štŷ́ry)
• Ukrainian: чоти́ри (čotýry); шти́ри (štýry) (dialectal)

Further reading

• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “чотыри”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Н – Ѳ), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 549
• Bulyka, A. M., editor (2016), “четыри”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 36 (фолкга – чорно), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 377
• Tymchenko, E. K. (2003), “чотыри”, in Nimchuk, V. V., editor, Матеріали до словника писемної та книжної української мови XV–XVIII ст. [Materials for the Dictionary of the Written and Book Ukrainian Language of 15ᵗʰ–18ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volumes 2 (О – Я), Kyiv, New York: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S., →ISBN, page 484