سَاع
saˁ (with masculine nouns séˁeʰ)
basic morphological information

num.

nine
девять
تسع
LS 289; CSOL I 639; CSOL II 571
text examples

a. wa-keʰ ˁážeʰ di-meḷáṭotš ... taˁdóḷ séˁeʰ ṭᵃhar séˁeʰ... wa-ˁiŝéreʰ di-menfέyreher ‘If it was a woman who plucked its hair..., may she be pregnant nine months and nine again..., and for ten months with the afterbirth inside’ (CSOL I 9:6)

b. menḥatóˀo áˁyeg men ṭeʸh di-ṭeʸh ˁaf tóˀo keméľ saˁ kɔn gézhɛr di-ˀóˀoz méḳrehor men ľhénˁaʰ men saˁ ‘And after that, they started giving birth one after another. When the ninth gave birth, the milk was so plentiful that it would fill a large skin vessel (made of the skin of a grown-up goat), (and enough to make) boiled buttermilk, from those nine (goats)’ (CSOL I 29:35)

semantic notes

With masculine nouns séˁeʰ (a)

With feminine nouns saˁ (b)

di-saˁ ‘ninth (f.)’:

menḥatóˀo ˁaf yefárrag áḷḷaʰ ˁíggoʰ deš di-saˁ ˁíggoʰ fídid ‘So he went on doing this until God relieved them, and the ninth goat, a hornless one, gave birth’ (CSOL I 29:29)

root
etymology
PS *tišˁ- nine
continental MSA