инже

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *inši(mi), possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic *inžinmī (whence Lithuanian įžymì (“(well)known”). Cognate with Moksha инжи (inži, “guest”). More distant cognates include Finnish ihminen (“human, man”), Estonian inimene (“human being, person”) (both are from Proto-Finnic *inhiminen). Koivulehto suggests an earlier Proto-Indo-European etymology for Finnic and Mordvinic (Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inʒe/, IPA^(key): /ind͡ʒe/

Noun

инже • (inže)

1. guest

Declension

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References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “инже”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #1231 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.