Numerals in Dagur and Buryat

The paper presents a diachronic analysis of numerals in Dagur and Buryat along with some ideas on etymologies of stems and morphemes. The analysis reveals common features both in building blocks of Dagur and Buryat numerals and in semantic motivation underlying the surface forms. The variation is mostly phonetic, and lies within Dagur-Buryat regular sound correspondences. Dagur has some lexical items used in, as or with numerals common with Western Buryat. The linguistic material of Dagur numerals helps to shed some light on Common Mongolic etymologies.