-нк

Moksha

Etymology

Via intermediate *-nə̑k, from Proto-Mordvinic *-nmə̑k, from Proto-Uralic *-n-mVk. Under the influence of the 1st person singular possessive suffix -зе (-ze) a vowel was added in nominative, genitive and dative, the other cases contain this suffix without this innovation.

Suffix

-нк • (-nk)

1. 1st person plural possessive suffix; our
2. added to postpositions that refer to the 1st person plural
   • O. Je. Poljakov (1995) Učimsja govoritʹ po-mokšanski [Let's learn to speak Moksha], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN

     Инголенк ащесть кафта ведаркат. Васенцеса ульсть марьхть, омбоцеса — шукшторуфт.

     Ingole nk aščesť kafta vedarkat. Vasencesa ulsť marxť, ombocesa — šukštoruft.

     In front of us there were two buckets. In the first one there were apples, in the second one — currant.

Declension

1st person plural (минь (miń, “our”)) possessive inflection

	singular	plural
nominative	-ньке (-ńke)	—
genitive	-ньконь (-ńkoń)	—
dative	-ньконди (-ńkondi)	—
ablative	-донк (-donk)	—
inessive	-сонк (-sonk)	—
elative	-стонк (-stonk)	—
illative	-зонк (-zonk)	—
prolative	-ванк (-vank)	—
comparative	-шканк (-škank)	—
translative	—	—
abessive	-фтомонк (-ftomonk)	—
causative	—	—

Derived terms

Moksha terms suffixed with -нк

вастоньке

вирьсонк

-зонк

инголенк

няемозонк

шиньке