skaitļa vārdiņš

Latvian

Etymology

Literally a diminutive, “little number word,” a term coined by Juris Neikens in the 1850s; later changed by Andrejs Stērste to its modern non-diminutive form skaitļa vārds.[1]

Noun

skaitļa vārdiņš m (1st declension)

  1. obsolete form of skaitļa vārds

Declension

References

  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “skaitīt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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