Erzya

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from a Turkic language. Compare Ottoman Turkish جیب (ceb, cep, pocket).

Cognate with Moksha зепе (źepe).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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зепе (źepe)

  1. pocket

Declension

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References

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  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “зепе”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Definite paradigm of зепе (źepe) in Cygankin, D. V. (1980) Grammatika mordovskix jazykov. Fonetika, grafika, orfografija, morfologija [Mordvinic grammar] (in Russian), Saransk, page 225