верь

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Erzya

Верь.

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *ver, inherited from Proto-Finno-Ugric *were. Cognates include Moksha вер (ver), Finnish veri, Livonian ver, Eastern Mari вӱр (vür), Hungarian vér.

Pronunciation

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Noun

верь (veŕ)

  1. (anatomy) blood
    • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 80:
      I kortliťado: ulevlińdäŕatanok miń täťanok tšisest, seste avolinek valno proroktneń verest.
      And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

Declension

References

  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “верь”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #1152 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.

Russian

Pronunciation

Verb

верь (verʹ)

  1. second-person singular imperative imperfective of ве́рить (véritʹ)