Northern Mansi

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Alternative forms

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  • [script needed] (khuś ~ khuš) (Central Mansi)
  • [script needed] (khuś) (Southern Mansi)

Etymology

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From Proto-Uralic *kuńśe (urine; urinate)[1] + вит (vit, water). Cognates include Hungarian húgy.

Noun

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хусьвит (husʹvit)

  1. urine

References

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  1. ^ Entry #408 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

Further reading

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  • Mansi Dictionary of Munkácsi and Kálmán [1]