теште

See also: тёще

Erzya

Тештеть.

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *ťäšťə, from Proto-Finno-Permic [Finno-Volgaic] *täštä (“star”). Compare Moksha тяште (ťašťe), Finnish tähti, Livonian tēd, Kildin Sami та̄ссьт (tāss’t), Eastern Mari тиште (tište).

Noun

теште • (ťešťe)

1. star
   • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 4:

     Miń neinek täštšenze sońze tši liśme peľde, i synek śukuńamo tenze.

     We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.

Declension

Indefinite declension of теште (front-vowel stem (ки) type)

	singular	plural
nominative	теште (ťešťe)	тештеть (ťešťeť)
genitive	тештень (ťešťeń)	—
dative	тештенень (ťešťeńeń)	—
ablative	тештеде (ťešťeďe)	—
inessive	тештесэ (ťešťese)	—
elative	тештестэ (ťešťeste)	—
illative	тештес (ťešťes)	—
prolative	тештева (ťešťeva)	—
translative	тештекс (ťešťeks)	—
comparative	тештешка (ťešťeška)	—
abessive	тештевтеме (ťešťevťeme)	—

References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “теште”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #1635 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.