пелемс

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Moksha

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *peľəms, ultimately from Proto-Uralic *pele-. Cognates include Finnish pelätä, Northern Sami ballat, Hungarian fél.[1]

Veršinin is unsure whether development from пяль (päľ, half; side) is possible, he wonders if the meaning could have changed from "side" to "step aside; avoid; fear."[2]

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /pʲelʲəms/

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Verb

пелемс (peľems)

  1. (intransitive) to fear, to be afraid
    • O. Je. Poljakov (1993) Russko-mokšanskij razgovornik , Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN
      Мон пелян
      Mon peľan
      I am afraid
      Монга аф пелян Тяштеняцень эзда
      Monga af peľan Tašťeńaćeń ezda
      I too am not afraid of the Little Star
      Нолась пели сталмода, кода калмода
      Nolaś peľi stalmoda, koda kalmoda
      The lazy fears difficulty/challenge like grave

Usage notes

The presumable object of the verb (i.e., the source of the fear) is put in ablative (-да (-da, from)), alternatively the postposition эзда (ezda, from) is used.

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Entry #739 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ Veršinin, V. I. (2004–2005) Этимологический словарь мордовских (эрзянского и мокшанского) языков [Etymological dictionary of Mordvinic (Erzya and Moksha) languages] (in Russian), Joškar Ola, page 342