Northern Mansi

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Alternative forms

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  • [script needed] (mäŋ) (Southern Mansi)

Etymology

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From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric root *me as Hungarian mi (we) and Finnish me.

Pronoun

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ма̄н (mān) (Sosva)

  1. we

Declension

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Declension of ма̄н
nominative ма̄н (mān) (mān (mān))
accusative мāнав (mānaw) (mānaw (mānaw))
dative мāнавн (mānawn) (mānawn (mānawn))
ablative мāнавныл(mānawnəl) (mānawnyl(mānawnəl))
comitative-instrumental мāнавтыл (mānawtəl) (mānawtyl (mānawtəl))

See also

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Northern Mansi personal pronouns
singular dual plural
1st person ам (am) ме̄н (mēn) ма̄н (mān)
2nd person наӈ (naň) нэ̄н (nè̄n) на̄н (nān)
3rd person тав (taw) тэ̄н (tè̄n) та̄н (tān)

References

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  • Susanna S. Virtanen, Csilla Horváth, Tamara Merova (2021) Pohjoismansin peruskurssin (5 op) [Northern Mansi basic course] (POHJOISMANSIN PERUSKURSSI)‎[1], Helsinki: Helsingin yliopisto, pages 15 and 49
  • Mansi dictionary of Munkácsi and Kálmán [2]
  • Northern Mansi pronouns from the Ob-Ugric database of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich [3]