хӯш

Mansi

Alternative forms

  • - (khuś ~ khuš) (Central Mansi)
  • - (khuś) (Southern Mansi)

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Uralic *kaća (“young unmarried man”)[1]. Cognates include Hungarian hős.

Noun

хӯш • (χūś)

  1. servant
  2. (card games) jack, knave

References

  1. ↑ Entry #211 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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