мари

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Eastern Mari мари (mari, “Mari language term for the Mari”), a name of Indo-Iranian origin, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máryas (“human”, literally “mortal”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈmarʲɪ] (Zaliznyak 1980)
  • IPA(key): [mɐˈrʲi] < (мариец, colloquial)

Noun

ма́ри • (mári) m anim or f anim (indeclinable)

  1. Mari person

References
  1. Parpola, A.; Carpelan, C. (2005). "The cultural counterparts to Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan: Matching the dispersal and contact patterns in the linguistic and archaeological record". In Bryant, E. F. (ed.). The Indo-Aryan controversy: Evidence and inference in Indian history. Routledge. p. 119.
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