лембе

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *ľämbə, from Proto-Uralic *lämpɜ. Cognates include Moksha лямбе (ľambe), Finnish lämmin, Estonian lämmi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʲembe/
• Rhymes: -embe
• Hyphenation: лем‧бе

Adjective

лембе • (ľembe)

1. warm

   лембе мастор ― ľembe mastor ― south (literally, “a warm land”)

References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “лембе”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #1368 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.