арсемс

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Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *arśəms, possibly derived from Proto-Finno-Ugric *arwa (“price, value”). Compare Finnish arvo (“value”), arvata (“to guess”), Estonian aru (“reason”), arvama (“to believe, assume, think”), Hungarian ár (“price”).

Ultimately borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hargʰás (“price, worth, value”), whence Sanskrit अर्घ (argha, “worth, value”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /arʲsʲems/
  • Rhymes: -ems
  • Hyphenation: ар‧семс

Verb

арсемс • (arsems) (present арси, past арсесь)

  1. to think, consider
    Арсян, (што) сон видечисэ.
    Arśan , (što) son videčisë.
    I think he is right.
    • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 83:
      Kortleź: meze tyń arsiťado Kristosdo, kiń son tśorazo? Kortlit sonenze: Davideń.
      “What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?” “The son of David,” they replied.
  2. to suppose
  3. to wish
  4. to dream

References

  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “арсемс”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #26 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.
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