тев

Erzya

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Finno-Ugric *tewe, whence Finnish työ, Veps tö, Livonian tīe. Can be reanalyzed as derivative from теемс (ťejems) with -в (-v) suffix, mostly unproductive. Compare теевть (ťejevť).

Noun

тев • (ťev)

deed, act, thing

Derived terms

nouns: теввал (ťevval), тевдаз (ťevdaz), тевконёв (ťevkońov)

References

B. A. Serebrennikov; R. N. Buzakova; M. V. Mosin (1993), “тев”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN

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