муемс

Erzya

Etymology

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”).

Verb

муемс • (mujems) (present муи, past муйсь)

1. to find

   Мон муия ёмавтозь книганть.

   Mon mujija jomavtoź kńigańť.

   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

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “муемс”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс, Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #558 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.