муемс

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Erzya[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Mordvinic *mujə-, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *muja- (“to touch, feel (by hand)”). Cognate with Finnish muistaa (“to remember, recall”), Estonian mõistma (“to understand”), Eastern Mari муаш (muaš, “to find, understand, decide”).

Pronunciation[edit]

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Verb[edit]

муемс • (mujems)

  1. to find
    Мон муия ёмавтозь книганть.
    Mon mujija jomavtoź kńiganť.
    I found the lost book.
    • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 21:
      Väšede i maksovi tenk, väšnede i muiďado, tšukado i panžovi tenk
      Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you

References[edit]

  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “муемс”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #558 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann (1865) Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch‎[1], London: Bonaparte, Louis-Lucien
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