седей

Erzya

Alternative forms

• (dialectal) седеҥ

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *śeďəj~*śeďəŋ, from Proto-Uralic *śüdäme. Cognates include Moksha седи (śeďi), Finnish sydän (sydäme-), Eastern Mari шӱм (šüm), Udmurt сюлэм (śulem) and Hungarian szív.

Noun

седей • (śeďej)

1. heart
   • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 11:

     Talanovt vańkst sädeise, seks syń pazoń neisyze.

     Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

2. middle

Declension

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References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “седей”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #960 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎^[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.

Russian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sʲɪˈdʲej]

Verb

седе́й • (sedéj)

1. second-person singular imperative imperfective of седе́ть (sedétʹ)