гуй

Dungan

Etymology

Cognate to Standard Mandarin (guǐ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuei⁵¹/

Noun

гуй • (guy) (II)

  1. ghost; spirit

Erzya

Гуй.

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *kuj, inherited from Proto-Uralic *kije or *küje. Cognates include Moksha куй (kuj), Finnish kyy (viper), dialectal Estonian küü (slowworm), Udmurt кый (kyj), Hungarian kígyó (snake).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡuj/

Noun

гуй • (guj)

  1. snake
    Synonym: ёзнэ (jozne)

Declension

References

  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “гуй”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #302 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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