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Etymology
Via intermediate *-nə̑k, from Proto-Mordvinic *-nmə̑k, from Proto-Uralic *-n-mVk. Under the influence of the 1st person singular possessive suffix -зе (-źe) a vowel was added in nominative, genitive and dative, the other cases contain this suffix without this innovation.[1]
Suffix
-нк • (-nk)
- 1st person plural possessive suffix; our
- added to postpositions that refer to the 1st person plural
- O. Je. Poljakov (1995) Učimsja govoritʹ po-mokšanski , Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN
Инголенк ащесть кафта ведаркат. Васенцеса ульсть марьхть, омбоцеса — шукшторуфт.- Ingoľe nk aščesť kafta vedarkat. Vaśenćesa uľsť maŕhť, omboćesa — šukštoruft.
- In front of us there were two buckets. In the first one there were apples, in the second one — currant.
Declension
1st person plural (
минь (miń,
“our”)) possessive inflection
Derived terms
References
- ^ Serebrennikov, B. A. (1967) Istoričeskaja morfologija mordovskix jazykov [Historical morphology of the Mordvinic languages] (in Russian), Moskva, page 65