Erzya

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Etymology

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From Proto-Mordvinic *mon, likely from Proto-Uralic *minä.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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мон (mon)

  1. (first person singular personal pronoun) I

See also

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Erzya personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person мон (mon) минь (miń)
2nd person тон (ton) тынь (tiń)
3rd person сон (son) сынь (siń)

References

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  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “мон”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN

Moksha

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Etymology

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From Proto-Mordvinic *mon, likely from Proto-Uralic *minä. Cognates include Finnish minä, Hungarian én, Erzya мон (mon), Northern Sami mon.[1]

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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мон (mon)

  1. (first person singular personal pronoun) I
    • O. Je. Poljakov (1993) Russko-mokšanskij razgovornik [Russian-Moksha phrasebook], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN, page 20
      монць — я сам
      monć — ja sam
      I myself — I myself [in Russian]
      монцень — свой
      monćeń — svoj
      my own — (my) own [in Russian]

Declension

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The meaning of the missing cases is conveyed by the personal pronoun in genitive and the relevant postposition, for example, монь инксон (moń inkson, because of me) for causative.

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ mina”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012

Further reading

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  • Indefinite and definite paradigms of мон (mon) in O. Je. Poljakov (1993) Russko-mokšanskij razgovornik [Russian-Moksha phrasebook], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN, page 19

Udmurt

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Etymology

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From Proto-Permic *mɛn, from Proto-Uralic *minä. Cognates include Finnish minä and Hungarian én.

Permic cognates include Komi-Zyrian ме (me) and Komi-Permyak ме (me).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmon]
  • Rhymes: -on
  • Hyphenation: мон

Pronoun

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мон (mon)

  1. (first person singular personal pronoun) I
    мон Ижкар университетын ужаськоmon Ižkar uńiverśiťetyn užaśkoI work at the university of Izhevsk
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References

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  • L. E. Kirillova, L. L. Karpova, editors (2008), “мон”, in Удмурт-ӟуч кыллюкам [Udmurt-Russian dictionary], Izhevsk: Удмуртский институт истории, языка и литературы УрО РАН, →ISBN, page 437
  • Yrjö Wichmann, Toivo Emil Uotila (1987) Mikko Korhonen, editor, Wotjakischer Wortschatz [Votyak Vocabulary] (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae; Volume 21) (overall work in German), Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 163