мӯӈи

Mansi

Alternative forms
  • [script needed] (mon) (Central Mansi)
  • [script needed] (mån) (Southern Mansi)

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *muna.[1] Cognates include Hungarian mony, Finnish muna and Estonian muna.

Noun

мӯӈи • (mūŋi) (Northern)

  1. egg
  2. testicle

References
  1. Entry #561 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Further reading
  • Afanasʹjeva, K. V.; Sobjanina, S. A. (2012), “мӯӈи”, in Školʹnyj mansijsko-russkij slovarʹ) [Mansi-Russian school dictionary], Khanty-Mansiysk: RIO IRO
  • Mansi Dictionary of Munkácsi and Kálmán
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