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Northern Mansi
Etymology
From Proto-Finno-Ugric *woča (“fence, fishweir”), cognates include Eastern Mansi ӯс (ūs, “city, town”), Western Mansi ӯш (ūš), вӯш (vūš), Southern Mansi о̄ш (ōš), Eastern Khanty вач (wač), Southern Khanty вош (woš), Erzya ош (oš), Moksha ош (oš), Tundra Nenets ваˮ (wāʔ, “fence, yard”), Northern Selkup ӄәтты (qē̮tti̮, “town, larger village”), Finnish otava (“the Great Bear; salmon net”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
ӯс (ūs) (Sosva, Upper Lozva, Ob, Sygva)
- city
Declension
Upper Lozva:
References
- “ӯс”, in Northern Mansi-Hungarian dictionary, Tromsø: University of Tromsø, 2023
- Mansi Dictionary of Munkácsi and Kálmán
- A.N.Balandin, M.P. Vahrusheva (1958) Мансийско-русский словарь с лексическими параллелями из южно-мансийского (кондинского) диалекта [Mansi-Russian dictionary with lexical parallels from Southern Mansi (Kondin) dialect], Leningrad: Государственное учебно-педагогическое издательство министерства просвещения РСФСР, ленинградское отделение