эзем

Erzya

Кевень эзем.

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *äźəm, inherited from Proto-Uralic *aśe- (“(to) put, set, place, set up a tent”). Compare Finnish asema (“position, state; status; station”), asettaa (“to put, place, set”), asua (“to live, reside”).

Noun

эзем • (eźem)

1. bench, chair
2. seat
3. place

   мезеньгак эземс ― meźeńgak eźems ― instead of sth

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• nouns: эземне, эзембря
• verbs: эземдямс, эземдякшномс
• postpositions: эземс
• idioms: тарка-эзем

References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “эзем”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #30 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.