This is a phonematic representation of the Erz'a language found in the Erzya -
English Glossary at Vienna.
www.geocities.com/Vienna/3259/erzya-eng.html
Subsequently, it has been downloaded by Webster's Online Dictionary and can be locatd at the the following URL:
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/Erzya/
Most recently the faulty Erzya materials have be compiled in a book titled "Webster's Erzya – English Thesaurus Dictionary".
When dental consonants other than "s" and "z" are
followed by a front vowel, they are automatically palatalized.
Certain corrections have been made with regard to English translations of the glosses. And, for some reason there were a lot of dialectical forms given. It would be interesting to learn what the source is for the Erzya material.
| Dialectic to literary | ||
|---|---|---|
| Viennese Erzya | Literary Erzya | Comment on Viennese form |
| "atja" 'father' | "tet'a" | The Viennese form should be glossed as "old man" |
| "jej" | "ej" | perhaps Moksha |
| "karda" | "kardo" | dialect |
| "kijov" | "guj" | dialect |
| "kong" | "kov" | dialect |
| "kshe" | "kshi" | old literary language |
| "maksams" | "maksoms" | dialect |
| "me" | "meks, mejs" and "mez'e" | dialect or perhaps merely a hypothetic stem |
| "peljims" | "pelems" | phonetic difference in second vowel |
| "pisi" | "ps'i" | dialect |
| "pire" | "pr'a" | in poetry "pir'a" |
Literary meanings added to given words
"atja" means "old man"
"pire" means "garden, orchard"
Miscellaneous:
"jiljams" but there is a negative imperative-optative stem beginning in "il'-".
A
a - adv - not
a - conj - but
ajgor - n - stallion, (male horse)
at'a - n - old man
at'aka - n - male
ava - n - mother
avaka - n - female (of animals)
B
ber'an' - adj - bad, not good
buka - n - bull (male bovine)
CH
chikordoms - v - to creak (loose board), to chatter (magpie)
chova - adj - thin (not thick)
D
davol - n - storm
dï - conj - and; but
E
ej - n - ice (frozen water)
ekshe - adj - cool (for example in the shade)
el'de - n - mare (female horse)
er'amo - n - life
er'ams - v - to live
echke - adj - thick (of a board), fat (of a person)
G
guj - n - snake (serpant)
I
il'a - NegImpV - don't (s=2Sg)
il'ak - NegImpV - don't (s=2Sg o=3Sg)
il'amak - NegImpV - don't (specific s=2Sg o=1Sg)
il'amiz' - NegImpV - don't (default s=2P o=1P)
ilit - NegImpV - don't (s=2Sg o=3Pl)
il'ado - NegImpV - don't (s=2Pl)
ilink - NegImpV - don't (s=2Pl o=3P)
J
jakams - v - to visit; to run (clock); to ferment (yeast)
jarsams - v - to eat (progressive, no objects)
jov - n - river
K
kandoms - v - to carry
kandtnems - v - to wear
kardo - n - stable (pen of confinement)
katka - n - cat (feline)
kachamo - n - smoke
kavto - num - two
1ked' - n - hand, arm
2ked' - n - skin
kel' - n - tongue; language
keme - adj - hard, strong, firm
kev - n - stone, rock
kevks'tems - v - to ask
kezh - n - anger
kirdems - v - to suffer; to bear, stand, put up with
kiska - n - dog (canine)
koda - adv - how
kolmo - num - three
kos'ke san - n - sinew
kortams - v - to speak
kov - n - moon (heavenly body); month
kshi - n - bread (baked dough)
kudo - n - house, room; home
kudo numolo - n - rabbit (domestic)
kuloms - v - to die
kuloz' - adj - dead
L
lej - n - river
lekshe - n - hoar frost
lem - n - name
lishme - n - horse
lovazha - n - bone
lovco - n - milk
lovso - n - milk
loman' - n - man; person
M
maksoms - v - to give
makso - n - liver
mar'ams - v - to feel; to hear; to sense; to smell
mashtoms - v - to be able to, to know how to
meks - adv - why
merems - v - to say
mez'e - prn - what
mijems - v - to sell
min' - prn - we
molems - v - to go
mon - prn - I
mona - n - testicle
mus'kems - v - to wash
N
nal - n - arrow
ned' - n - handle; shaft
nejavoms - v - to be seen
nilems - v - to swallow
nolams - v - to lick
numolo - n - hare
O
oj - n - butter; oil
ombo - adj - other
orgat - n - yeast
P
paks'a - n - field
pal - n - bit; piece
palamo - n - kiss
paro - adj - good
pek - adv - very
pelems - v - to fear
pine - n - dog
pir'a - n - head
pire - n - garden, orchard
ponams - v - to braid
pr'a - n - head
psaka - n - cat
ps'i - adj - hot
ps'i - n - heat
pul' - n - dust
R
rakams - v - to laugh
ramams - v - to buy
rauzho - adj - black
reve - n - sheep
S
salï vor - n - thief
sams - v - to come, arrive
san - n - sinew; vein
satïshka - adj - enough
s'elej - n - elm
s'el'me - n - eye
s'el'ved' - n - tear
s'imems - v - to drink
s'iz'ems - v - to get tired
s'vezhoj - adj - fresh
s'upav - adj - rich
sïn' - prn - they
skal - n - cow
skal oj - n - butter
sodams - v - to know
soka - n - plow
sokams - v - to plow
son - prn - he, she
T
tarka - n - place
tele - n - winter
tet'a - n - old man
tïn' - prn - you (Pl)
tolga - n - feather
tombale - postp - beyond
ton - prn - thou
tonavtoms - v - to teach
1tujems - v - to go away
2tujems - v - to bring
U
udoms - v - to sleep
ujems - v - to swim; to slide; to float
ul'nems - v - to be
ur - n - squirrel
uro - n - awl
V
vajams - v - to sink
valdo - n - light
valdo - adj - light
varaka - n - crow
vaz - n - calf
vazhodic'a - n - worker, workman; farmhand
1ve - n - night
2ve - num - one
ved' - n - water
vedreksh - n - heifer
vejke - num - one
ver' san - n - vein
veshkams - v - to whistle
© Jack Rueter