мари

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mari"

Bulgarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mɐˈri]

Particle

мари́ • (marí)

  1. (informal, dated) Used when addressing a female, usually as an intensifier, but seldom used independently. This particle hints familiarity and is primarily used in questions or expressions of wander/bewilderment.

References

  • “мари”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • “мари”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Eastern Mari мари (mari, “Mari language term for the Mari”), a name of Indo-Iranian origin, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máryas (“human”, literally “mortal”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmarʲɪ] (Zaliznyak 1980)
  • IPA(key): [mɐˈrʲi] < (мариец, colloquial)

Noun

ма́ри • (mári) m anim or f anim (indeclinable)

  1. Mari person

References

  1. ^ Parpola, A.; Carpelan, C. (2005). "The cultural counterparts to Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan: Matching the dispersal and contact patterns in the linguistic and archaeological record". In Bryant, E. F. (ed.). The Indo-Aryan controversy: Evidence and inference in Indian history. Routledge. p. 119.
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