лембе

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *ľämbə, from Proto-Uralic *lämpɜ. Cognates include Moksha лямбе (lämbe), Finnish lämmin, Estonian lämmi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lʲembe/
  • Rhymes: -embe
  • Hyphenation: лем‧бе

Adjective

лембе • (lembe)

  1. warm
    лембе мастор ― lembe mastor ― south (literally, “a warm land”)

References

  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “лембе”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #1368 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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