весе

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *veśə, inherited from Proto-Uralic *we(ń)ćɜ (“every, all, whole”). Cognate with Udmurt воч (voć), Komi-Zyrian вач (vać), possibly with Hungarian össze (“together”).

The Uralic word may be of Indo-Iranian origin, compare Proto-Iranian *wícwah (“all, every; whole”).

Pronoun

весе • (veśe)

1. everything, all
2. everyone, everybody, all

   весе вейсэ ― veśe vejse ― all together

Adjective

весе • (veśe)

1. whole, entire, all
   • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 7:

     Seste Ierusalim liśneź tenze i vese Iudeja vesejak Iordan jonga mastort

     People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan

References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “весе”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #1139 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎^[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.

Russian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvʲesʲe]

Noun

ве́се • (vése) m inan

1. prepositional singular of вес (ves)