кундья
Moksha
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Greek κοντά[1][2]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kon.tǎː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /konˈta/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /konˈta/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /konˈta/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /konˈda/
From Proto-Mordvinic *kundja. Cognates include Estonian -kond, Finnish kunta, Livonian *gõnd (kōzgõnd), Votic kunta, Erzya кундо (kundo), Mansi [script needed] (χōnt) and Hungarian had.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkunʲdʲjɑ/
- Rhymes: -ундья
- Syllabification: кун‧дья
Noun
- Noun
- tribe, commune; local political division
- (in compounds) community, group, corps
- ломань (lomanʹ, “human”) → ломанькундья (“humankind”)
- кев (kev, “stone”) → кевгундья (“mineral kingdom”)
- (taxonomy) kingdom
- (mathematics, set theory) field
Derived terms
- nouns: кундьяломатть (kundʹjalomattʹ)
- adjectives: кундьянь (kundʹjanʹ)
compounds
- ломанькундья (lomanʹkundʹja)
- оцязоркундья (ocjazorkundʹja)
References
- Peter Revesz. Establishing the West-Ugric Language Family with Minoan, Hattic and Hungarian by a Decipherment of Linear A. 2017. University of Nebraska at Lincoln
- Vladimir Semenkovich. Gelons and Mordvins. Materials and research on the historical geography of the upper reaches of the Don and the Oka. Part I. A.I. Snegiryova's Publishing, Moscow, 1913