вечкемс
Erzya edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps related to вешемс (vešems, “to ask, apply; demand, require; want; seek”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
вечкемс • (večkems) (present вечки, past вечксь)
- to love
- Мон (тонь) вечктян.
- Mon (toń) večkťan .
- I love you.
- 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 15:
- Tyń marink, meze jovtaź uli: vetškik malavikst tońt, i ilik vetške avetškitśat tońt.
- You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
- (literally, “[...] and don't love your enemy.”)
- to like
- вечкемс спорт ― večkems sport ― to like sports
- to respect
- Synonym: арнемс (arńems)
- вечкезь ваномс ― večkeź vanoms ― to look with respect
References edit
- B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “вечкемс”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN