тесэ

Erzya

Etymology

From те (ťe, “this”) +‎ -сэ (-se, inessive case suffix).

Compare Moksha тяса (ťasa), Finnish tässä, Veps täs (“here”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲese/
• Rhymes: -ese
• Hyphenation: те‧сэ

Adverb

тесэ • (ťese)

1. here

   Synonym: тия (ťija)

   Тон мезе тесэ теят?

   Ton meźe ťese ťejat?

   What are you doing here?

   • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 39:

     No mon jovtan tynenk, tese se, kona pokš tserkvado.

     I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.

References

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