уське

Erzya

Электричествань уськеть.

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *uśkə, inherited from Proto-Finno-Permic *waśke~*wäśkä (“some kind of metal; copper”). Cognate with Finnish vaski (“copper”), Hungarian vas (“iron”), Eastern Khanty вӑӽ (wăḥ, “iron”).

Noun

уське • (uśke)

1. wire

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “уське”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #1123 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.