йӣ

Mansi

Alternative forms
  • [script needed] (jī), [script needed] (jiγ), [script needed] (ī) — Western Mansi
  • [script needed] (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 (è̄t).

Noun

йӣ • (jī) (Tavda)

  1. night

References
  1. Entry #130 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

Further reading
  • Mansi Dictionary of Munkácsi and Kálmán
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