шерже
Erzya
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Mordvinic *šerši, borrowed from Proto-Baltic *šeršnas, *šar- (whence Lithuanian šer̃kšnas (“ripe; frost”), šir̃vas (“(blue)grey, mouldy”), Latvian sirms (“grey hair”)). Akin to Moksha шаржа (šarža). Compare Proto-Finnic *harmaga (“grey”) (from earlier *šarma), which was borrowed from the same source.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editшерже • (šerže)
References
edit- B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “шерже”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN