чачомс
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Erzya
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (archaic) шачомс (šačoms)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Mordvinic *čačəms, inherited from Proto-Uralic *ča(n)čɜ- (“to be born; grow”). Cognates include Eastern Mari шочаш (šočaš), Komi-Permyak чужны (ćužny) and likely Finnish sato (“harvest, crop”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]чачомс • (čačoms) (present чачи, past чачсь)
- to be born
- чачсь од кой ― čačś od koj ― a new tradition was born
- 1910, Makar Evsevievich Evseviev, Gospoda nashego Iisusa Hrista Svyatoe Evangelie ot Matfeya, Marka, Luki i Ioanna na mordovskom yazyke[1], page 230:
- Іисус тень каршо мерьсь тензэ: видестэ, видестэ кортан тенть: ки а шачи верьде, сенень Пазонь инязорокс чись а нееви.
- Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
References
[edit]- B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “чачомс”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
- Entry #95 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial[2], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.