кенере

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *keńəŕə (*keńə +‎ *-ŕə), inherited from Proto-Uralic *küńä~*kińä. Cognate with Moksha кенерь (keńeŕ), Finnish kyynärä, Livonian kīndõr, Inari Sami käŋŋir, Hungarian könyök.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʲenʲerʲe/
• Hyphenation: ке‧не‧ре

Noun

кенере • (keńeŕe)

1. elbow

   Synonym: кенерепакарь (keńeŕepakaŕ)

2. (dated) cubit (unit of length)
   • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 19:

     I ki tyń peľdenk truďaź läzdeveľ kasmonsten koš ve känir?

     And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature by one cubit?

Declension

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References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “кенере”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #311 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎^[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.