tuoistõn

Livonian

Etymology

Some kind of fossilized form, possibly a genitive of some kind, of tuoi (“second”) (modern genitive form – tuoiz). Compare Estonian üksteist (“eleven”), shortened from üksteistkümmend (literally “one of the second ten”), where “ten” gets dropped and “one of the second” remains.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuoistən/, [ˈtŭ̯o̯iˑsˑtən]

Numeral

tuoistõn

1. teen (a set of objects of unspecified quantity ranging from 11 to 19)
   • 2012–2013, “tuoistõnd”, in Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits, editors, Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[1], Tartu, Riga: 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

• tuoistõnz