эрямс

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *eŕams, possibly inherited from Proto-Uralic *elä- (“to live”), but both the vowel e and the consonant ŕ are irregular. Keresztes suggests an irregular development due to avoidance of homonymy with the prohibitve auxiliary Erzya иля (iľa, “don't”). Compare also Estonian ära (from Proto-Finnic *älä-) with the similar phonetic shift *l > r.

Alternatively, related to Erzya эрзя (erźa), which may derive from *ürkä ~ *irkä (“man, son, boy”). See there for more.

Verb

эрямс • (eŕams) (present эри, past эрясь)

to live
- 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 6:
  I samsto tov karmaź eŕamo ošso, konań lemze Nazaret.
  And he went and lived in a town called Nazareth.
  
  1910, Makar Evsevievich Evseviev, Gospoda nashego Iisusa Hrista Svyatoe Evangelie ot Matfeya, Marka, Luki i Ioanna na mordovskom yazyke‎^[1], page 227:
  Сынь мольсть да неизь, косо Сон эри да ащесть кедьсэнзэ чинь чоп.
  Sïń molsť da nejiź, koso Son eri da aščesť kedsënzë čiń čop.
  So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him.
  (literally, “[...] where he lives [...]”)

Derived terms

adjectives: эри (eri), эрикс (eriks), эрьмев (eŕmev), эряза (eŕaza)
adverbs: эрейстэ (erejstë), эрекстэ (erekstë)
participles: эриця (erića)
nouns: эриця (erića), эрямо (eŕamo), эрямка (eŕamka), эрьме (eŕme), эрьмо (eŕmo), эрексия (ereksija)
verbs: frequentatives эрсемс (ersems), эрякшномс (eŕakšnoms); causative эрявтомс (eŕavtoms)
predicatives: эряви (eŕavi)

References

B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “эрямс”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
Entry #132 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.