сэтьме
Erzya edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Mordvinic *säťmə~*śäťmə, wherein *-mə is a suffix (compare dialectal Moksha śäťav). Ultimately onomatopoeic; compare Erzya чать (čať, “be quiet!”), чатьмонемс (čaťmońems, “to be quiet”).
First coined by bishop Damaskin in 1785 as сатьме (saťme).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
сэтьме • (seťme)
- silence, quiet, quietness
- peace
- Толстоень ине куваёвкс "Тюрема ды Сэтьме" ― Tolstojeń ińe kuvajovks " Ťuŕema di Seťme " ― Tolstoy's great novel "War and Peace"
Declension edit
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Adjective edit
сэтьме • (seťme)
- quiet
- meek
- 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 11:
- Talanovt setmet, seks synenst maksovi mastor.
- Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
- peacefull
References edit
- B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “сэтьме”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN