Moksha edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Uralic *karma- (to want). Cognates may include Tundra Nenets хӑрва-сь (xărwa-sʹ°, to want; to be able to), Forest Enets koma- (to want), kometa (to love), Nganasan кәрбудя (to want) [[script needed] (karbitu-, to want) in original], Mator [script needed] (chor-).[1]

Pronunciation edit

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Verb edit

кармамс (karmams)

  1. (auxiliary) used to form compound future
    • O. Je. Poljakov (1993) Russko-mokšanskij razgovornik [Russian-Moksha phrasebook], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN
      карман морама
      karman morama
      [I] will sing
  2. (transitive) to start
    • O. Je. Poljakov (1993) Russko-mokšanskij razgovornik [Russian-Moksha phrasebook], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN
      кармамс «начать», «стать»
      karmams «načať», «stať»
      to start "to start" [in Russian]

Conjugation edit

References edit

  1. ^ Veršinin, V. I. (2005) Этимологический словарь мордовских (эрзянского и мокшанского) языков [Etymological dictionary of Mordvinic (Erzya and Moksha) languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Joškar Ola, page 111