минь

Erzya

Etymology

Of Proto-Uralic [Term?] origin.[1] Cognates include Erzya минь (minʹ), Northern Sami , Finnish me, Eastern Mari ме (me), Western Mari мӓ (), Komi-Zyrian ми (mi), Udmurt ми (mi), Hungarian mi, Tundra Nenets [script needed] (mańaʾ), Selkup [script needed] (mee).[2]

Pronoun

минь (minʹ)

  1. (first person plural) we

References

  1. meie in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
  2. минь (minʹ) in Álgu-tietokanta, Kotimaisten kielten keskus

Moksha

Etymology

Of Proto-Uralic [Term?] origin.[1] Cognates include Erzya минь (minʹ), Northern Sami , Finnish me, Eastern Mari ме (me), Western Mari мӓ (), Komi-Zyrian ми (mi), Udmurt ми (mi), Hungarian mi, Tundra Nenets [script needed] (mańaʾ), Selkup [script needed] (mee).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mʲinʲ/

Pronoun

минь (minʹ)

  1. plural nominative of мон (mon)
  2. plural genitive of мон (mon)

Pronoun

минь (minʹ)

  1. (first person plural) we

Declension

The meaning of the missing cases is conveyed by the personal pronoun in genitive and the relevant postposition, for example, монь инксон (monʹ inkson, because of me) for causative.

Pronoun

минь (minʹ)

  1. (first person plural possessive) our

Declension

Derived terms

References

  1. meie in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
  2. минь (minʹ) in Álgu-tietokanta, Kotimaisten kielten keskus

Further reading

  • Indefinite and definite paradigms of минь (minʹ) in O. Je. Poljakov (1993) Russko-mokšanskij razgovornik [Russian-Moksha phrasebook], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN, page 19
  • Indefinite and definite paradigms of монь (monʹ) in O. Je. Poljakov (1993) Russko-mokšanskij razgovornik [Russian-Moksha phrasebook], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN, page 21

Mongolian

MongolianCyrillic
ᠮᠢᠨᠢ
(mini)
минь
(minʹ)

Etymology

Compare also Buryat -мни (-mni, after a vowel), (-m, after a vowel), -ни (-ni, after a consonant); Kalmyk (-m).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /min/

Particle

минь (minʹ)

  1. The first-person singular possessive particle, placed after a noun or its suffixes of number and case.
    ээж миньeež minʹmy mum
    эх оронд миньex orond minʹin my motherland
  • миний (minii, my, first-person singular possessive determiner)

See also

  • маань (maanʹ), чинь (činʹ), тань (tanʹ), нь ()
  • -аа (-aa), -гаа (-gaa), -оо (-oo), -гоо (-goo), -ээ (-ee), -гээ (-gee), -өө (-öö), -гөө (-göö)
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