хельҗь

Selkup

**Selkup cardinal numbers**
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Cardinal : хельҗь Ordinal : хе́льҗемҗэл

Alternative forms

селчи (Taz dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *säjʔwə, from Proto-Uralic *ćäjćemä. Cognates include Nganasan сяйбә, Finnish seitsemän and Kildin Sami кыджемь (kydž’em’).

Numeral

хельҗь (h’el’ʒ’)

seven
- 2022, Grogorij Korotkih, Современный язык нарымских селькупов (in Russian), page 25:
  Челфа́тӄэт хельҗь челд.
  There are seven days in a week.

Further reading

G.V. Korotkih (2022) Современный язык нарымских селькупов [The modern language of Narym Selkups], Tomsk: Соиздательство ценных книг «Грасион», page 67

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