пине

Erzya
Пине.

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *penä (“dog”). Related to Finnish peni, Livonian pi’ņ, Northern Sami beana, Eastern Mari пий (pij), Udmurt пуны (puny), Komi-Zyrian пон (pon).

Noun

пине • (pińe)

  1. dog
    Synonym: киска (kiska)
    кежей пине ― kežej pińe ― an angry dog

References
  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “пине”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #743 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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