мари

Russian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Eastern Mari мари (mari, “Mari language term for the Mari”), a name of Indo-Iranian origin, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máryas (“human”, literally “mortal”).^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈmarʲɪ] (Zaliznyak 1980)
IPA^(key): [mɐˈrʲi] < (мариец, colloquial)

Noun edit

ма́ри • (mári) m anim or f anim (indeclinable)

Mari person

References edit

^ Parpola, A.; Carpelan, C. (2005). "The cultural counterparts to Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan: Matching the dispersal and contact patterns in the linguistic and archaeological record". In Bryant, E. F. (ed.). The Indo-Aryan controversy: Evidence and inference in Indian history. Routledge. p. 119.

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