седей
Erzya
Alternative forms
- (dialectal) седеҥ (sedeŋ), сӓдей (sädej)
Etymology
From Proto-Mordvinic *śeďəj ~ *śeďəŋ, from Proto-Uralic *śüdäme. Cognates include Moksha седи (sedi), Finnish sydän (sydäme-), Eastern Mari шӱм (šüm), Udmurt сюлэм (śulem) and Hungarian szív.
Pronunciation
Noun
седей • (sedej)
- heart
- 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 11:
- Talanovt vańkst sädeise, seks syń pazoń neisyze.
- Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
- middle
Declension
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References
- B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “седей”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
- Entry #960 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.
Russian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sʲɪˈdʲej]
Verb
седе́й • (sedéj)
- second-person singular imperative imperfective of седе́ть (sedétʹ)