сэкс

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *säksə, inherited from Proto-Finno-Permic *säksä (dirt, dirtiness; dirty, unclean). Cognates include Karelian šuakši, Kildin Sami са̄ккьс (sākk’s) and Udmurt сэс (ses).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɛks/

Noun

сэкс • (sëks)

  1. dirt, impurity (on a human body)

Declension

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References

  • Heikki Paasonen; Kaino Heikkilä; Martti Kahla (1990-1996), H. Paasonens Mordwinisches Wörterbuch [Heikki Paasonen's Dialect Dictionary of the Mordvinian Languages]‎[1], Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, →ISBN
  • B. A. Serebrennikov; R. N. Buzakova; M. V. Mosin (1993), “сэкс”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #1544 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.