From Proto-Mordvinic *nur-ka~*nir-kä. Probably related to Proto-Finnic *nërkka (“weak, feeble, frail”), whence Finnish nerkko, Estonian nõrk, Livonian nȭrka.
Akin to Moksha нюрьхкя (ńuŕhkä).
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нурька • (nuŕka)
- short
- Synonym: нурькине (nuŕkińe)
- нурька ёвтнема ― nuŕka jovtńema ― a short story
- B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “нурька”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
- Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.
