Erzya edit

Etymology edit

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.

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Noun edit

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

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References edit

  • 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.

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Verb edit

седе́й (sedéj)

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