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.
Noun
йӣ • (jī)
- (Southern Mansi) night
References
- Entry #130 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Further reading
- Mansi Dictionary of Munkácsi and Kálmán