повамс

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *puwe- (“suffocate (vi), drown”). Cognates include Hungarian fojt.

Verb

повамс • (povams)

1. to strangle

References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “повамс”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс, Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #831 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.