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Bulgarian
Pronunciation
Particle
мари́ • (marí)
- (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 (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “мари”, in Речник на българския език (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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ма́ри • (mári) m anim or f anim (indeclinable)
- Mari person
References
- ^ 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.