эзне

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *jäzńä, inherited from Proto-Finno-Permic *jäsene (“bodypart, joint”). Akin to Finnish jäsen, Estonian jäse, Komi-Zyrian йӧзви (jözvi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ezʲnʲe/

Noun

эзне • (ezńe)

1. joint
2. bodypart

Declension

Indefinite declension of эзне (front-vowel stem (ки) type)

	singular	plural
nominative	эзне (ezńe)	эзнеть (ezńeť)
genitive	эзнень (ezńeń)	—
dative	эзненень (ezńeńeń)	—
ablative	эзнеде (ezńeďe)	—
inessive	эзнесэ (ezńese)	—
elative	эзнестэ (ezńeste)	—
illative	эзнес (ezńes)	—
prolative	эзнева (ezńeva)	—
translative	эзнекс (ezńeks)	—
comparative	эзнешка (ezńeška)	—
abessive	эзневтеме (ezńevťeme)	—

References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “эзне”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #176 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.