Erzya edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Mordvinic *taštə, perhaps inherited from Proto-Finno-Permic [Term?] [Finno-Volgaic] *tašta. Compare Western Mari тошты (tošty), Eastern Mari тошто (tošto).

Pronunciation edit

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Adjective edit

ташто (tašto)

  1. old (of things)
    • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 28:
      Kijak a polady od panks tašto oďožanen; od panksoś razdevi oďožado, i vaŕaś uli sede pokš.
      No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.

References edit

  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “ташто”, 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.

Serbo-Croatian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /tâʃto/
  • Hyphenation: та‧што

Adverb edit

та̏што (Latin spelling tȁšto)

  1. vainly