Erzya

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Etymology

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From Proto-Mordvinic *keńəŕə (*keńə +‎ *-ŕə), inherited from Proto-Uralic *küńä~*kińä. Cognate with Moksha кенерь (keńeŕ), Finnish kyynärä, Livonian kīndõr, Inari Sami käŋŋir, Hungarian könyök.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kʲenʲerʲe/
  • Hyphenation: ке‧не‧ре

Noun

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кенере (keńeŕe)

  1. elbow
    Synonym: кенерепакарь (keńeŕepakaŕ)
  2. (dated) cubit (unit of length)
    • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 19:
      I ki tyń peľdenk truďaź läzdeveľ kasmonsten koš ve känir?
      And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature by one cubit?

Declension

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References

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  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “кенере”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс, Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #311 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.