йӣ

Mansi

Alternative forms

  • - (jī ~ jiγ ~ ī) (Western Mansi)
  • - (ji) (Eastern Mansi)

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *eje/*üje. Cognates include Hungarian éj, Finnish yö and Estonian öö.[1] Replaced in Standard Northern Mansi by э̄т.

Noun

йӣ • (jī) (Southern Mansi)

  1. night

References

  1. ↑ Entry #130 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Source

  1. Mansi Dictionary of Munkácsi and Kálmán
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