лишме

Erzya

Лишме.

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *lišmə, from Proto-Finno-Permic *lešmä (“large domesticated animal ?”). Cognates include Moksha лишме (ľišme), Estonian lehm (“cow”) and Finnish lehmä (“cow”).

Noun

лишме • (ľišme)

1. horse

   озамс лишме лангс ― ozams ľišme langs ― to sit on a horse

Declension

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Hyponyms

• айгор (ajgor, “stallion”)
• алаша (alaša, “horse, gelding”)
• эльде (eľďe, “mare”)
• вашо (vašo, “foal”), парнэ (parne, “foal”) (and other кильдеметь (kiľďemeť, “draft animals”), such as скал (skal, “cow”))

References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “лишме”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #1378 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎^[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.