верь

Erzya

Верь.

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *ver, inherited from Proto-Finno-Ugric *were (“blood”). Cognates include Moksha вер (ver), Finnish veri, Livonian ver, Eastern Mari вӱр (vür), Hungarian vér.

Noun

верь • (veŕ)

1. (anatomy) blood
   • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 80:

     I kortliťado: ulevlińdäŕatanok miń täťanok tšisest, seste avolinek valno proroktneń verest.

     And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

Declension

Indefinite declension of верь (soft consonant stem (ривезь) type)

	singular	plural
nominative	верь (veŕ)	верть (verť)
genitive	верень (veŕeń)	—
dative	вернень (verńeń)	—
ablative	верде (verďe)	—
inessive	верьсэ (veŕse)	—
elative	верьстэ (veŕste)	—
illative	верес (veŕes)	—
prolative	верьга (veŕga)	—
translative	верекс (veŕeks)	—
comparative	верьшка (veŕška)	—
abessive	вертеме (verťeme)	—

References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “верь”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #1152 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.

Russian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vʲerʲ]

Verb

верь • (verʹ)

1. second-person singular imperative imperfective of ве́рить (véritʹ)