Erzya edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Mordvinic and perhaps Proto-Finno-Volgaic *mala (edge, brim (of an opening, gap, cleft)) + *-sV (inessive case suffix), possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic *malā (whence Latvian mala (edge; cost, surrounding), Lithuanian malá (land, landscape; edge)).[1] May be related to Finnish malo (edge, side; chink, hole).

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

маласо (malaso)

  1. near, close to

References edit

  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “маласо”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #1403 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.