гуй

Dungan

Etymology

Cognate to Standard Mandarin 鬼 (guǐ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuei⁵¹/

Noun

гуй • (guy) (II)

1. ghost; spirit

Erzya

Гуй.

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *kuj, inherited from Proto-Uralic *kije or *küje. Cognates include Moksha куй (kuj), Finnish kyy (“viper”), dialectal Estonian küü (“slowworm”), Udmurt кый (kyj), Hungarian kígyó (“snake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡuj/

Noun

гуй • (guj)

1. snake

   Synonym: ёзнэ (jozne)

Declension

Indefinite declension of гуй (soft consonant stem (пей) type)

	singular	plural
nominative	гуй (guj)	гуйть (gujť)
genitive	гуень (gujeń)	—
dative	гуйнень (gujńeń)	—
ablative	гуйде (gujďe)	—
inessive	гуйсэ (gujse)	—
elative	гуйстэ (gujste)	—
illative	гуйс (gujs)	—
prolative	гуйга (gujga)	—
translative	гуйкс (gujks)	—
comparative	гуйшка (gujška)	—
abessive	гуйтеме (gujťeme)	—

References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “гуй”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #302 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.