удмурт

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Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Udmurt Удмуртъёс (Udmurtjos), said to mean "meadow people," from the Proto-Permic *od(o)- (glade, meadow) + *mari (person), itself borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mártyas (human, mortal, one who has to die).[1][2] Compare Mari. More at Udmurt.

Pronunciation

Noun

удму́рт (udmúrtm anim (genitive удму́рта, nominative plural удму́рты, genitive plural удму́ртов, feminine удму́ртка)

  1. Udmurt (person)
    Synonym: (obsolete) вотяк (votjak)

Declension

References

  1. ^ Parpola, A.; Carpelan, C. (2005). "The cultural counterparts to Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan: Matching the dispersal and contact patterns in the linguistic and archaeological record". In Bryant, E. F. (ed.). The Indo-Aryan controversy: Evidence and inference in Indian history. Routledge. p. 119
  2. ^ Christopher I. Beckwith. Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2009. Page 397