-سم

Bulgar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sāyïn (“every”).[1] Cognate to Chuvash -сем (-sem), Kazakh сайын (saiyn), Turkmen sāýyn, as opposed to Common Turkic plurals in *-ler like Turkish -ler.

Suffix

-ڛَم (-sem)

  1. (Volga Bulgar) Suffix creating plurality.

References
  • Hakimzjanov, Farid Sabirzjanovich (1976), “New Volga Bulgarian Inscriptions”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎, volume 40, issue 1, page 174
  1. (please provide the title of the work)‎, accessed 28 October 2021, archived from the original on 2005-03-11
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