tuoistõn

Livonian

Etymology

Perhaps a fossilized earlier genitive form of tuoi (“second”) (modern genitive form – tuoiz). Compare Estonian üksteist (“eleven”) a shortening of üksteistkümmend "one of the second ten" where "ten" gets dropped and "one of the second" remains.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tuoistən/

Numeral

tuoistõn

teen (a set of objects of unspecified quantity ranging from 11 to 19)
- Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA
  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 (ikšlug)	plural (pǟgiņlug)
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 tuoistõns	tuoistiņis
elative (elatīv)	tuoistõnõst tuoistõnst	tuoistiņist