кенере

Erzya

Alternative forms

  • кӓнере (känere)

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *keńəŕə (*keńə- +‎ *-ŕə), inherited from Proto-Uralic *küńä ~ *kińä. Cognate with Moksha кенерь (keneŕ), Finnish kyynärä, Livonian kīndõr, Inari Sami käŋŋir, Hungarian könyök.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʲenʲerʲe/
  • Hyphenation: ке‧не‧ре

Noun

кенере • (kenere)

  1. elbow
    Synonym: кенерепакарь (kenerepakaŕ)
    кедтне кенерева рудазовт ― kedtne kenereva rudazovt ― the hands are dirty up to the elbow
  2. (dated) cubit (unit of length)
    • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 19:
      I ki tyń peľdenk truďaź läzdeveľ kasmonsten koš ve känir?
      And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature by one cubit?

Declension

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References

  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “кенере”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #311 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.
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