-мӗш

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mes"

Chuvash[edit]

From a compound of Proto-Turkic *-m (“ordinal suffix”) + Proto-Turkic *-inč (“ordinal suffix”),^[1] compare Bulgar -مْ (-m, “ordinal suffix”) and -شِ (-şi, “ordinal suffix”).^[2]

Cognate with Khalaj -minci, Turkmen -minji (“ordinal suffix”).

-мӗш • (-mĕš)

Used to form ordinals of numerals
‎пиллӗк (pillĕk, “five”) + ‎-мӗш (-mĕš) → ‎пиллӗкмӗш (pillĕkmĕš, “fifth”)

^ Levitskaja, Lija Sergejevna (1976) Istoričeskaja morfologija čuvašskovo jazyka [Historical morphology of Chuvash]‎^[1], Moscow, pages 47-49
^ Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎^[2] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 40