шенже

Erzya
Колмо шенжеть.

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *čänžə, through Proto-Balto-Slavic *źansís (“goose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.

Finnish hanhi borrowed from the same Balto-Slavic root.

Noun

шенже • (šenže)

  1. (dialectal) duck
    Synonym: яксярго (jakśargo)

Declension

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References
  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “шенже”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #108 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎, Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26., page 156
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