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Etymology
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
- IPA(key): /kʲenʲerʲe/
- Hyphenation: ке‧не‧ре
Noun
кенере • (keńeŕe)
- elbow
- Synonym: кенерепакарь (keńeŕepakaŕ)
- (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
- B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “кенере”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], 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, Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.