Mongolian

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Etymology

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From Classical Mongolian ᠲᠡᠷ᠎ᠡ᠋ (ter-e, that), from Middle Mongol ᠲᠡᠷᠡ (tere) and ᠲᠡᠷ᠎ᠡ᠋ (ter-e, that), from Proto-Mongolic *tere (that). Cognate with Buryat тэрэ (tere, that), Kalmyk тер (ter, that; he, she, it), Dongxiang tere, etc.

Replaced original (i, compare Daur ing) for sense ‘he, she, it’ as the third-person singular pronoun.

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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тэр (ter) (Mongolian spelling ᠲᠡᠷᠡ (tere))

  1. that

Pronoun

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тэр (ter) (Mongolian spelling ᠲᠡᠷᠡ (tere))

  1. that
  2. he, she, it

Declension

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See also

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  • энэ (ene, this)
  • нь (, third-person possessive particle)

Urum

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *tẹr. Cognate to Karachay-Balkar тер (ter), Kumyk тер (ter), Crimean Tatar ter, Karaim ter, тер (ter), тэр (ter), Kazakh тер (ter), etc.

Noun

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тэр (ter)

  1. sweat

References

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  • Oleksandr Harkavecʹ (2000) Urumsʹkyj Slovnyk [Urum-Ukrainian Dictionary], Almaty: Ynstytut Sxodoznavstva Myžnarodnyx Vydnosyn Xarkyvsʹkyj Kolehyum, →ISBN