шерже

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *šerši, borrowed from Proto-Baltic *šeršnas, *šar- (whence Lithuanian šer̃kšnas (“ripe; frost”), šir̃vas (“(blue)grey, mouldy”), Latvian sirms (“grey hair”)). Akin to Moksha шаржа (šarža). Compare Proto-Finnic *harmaga (“grey”) (from earlier *šarma), which was borrowed from the same source.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃerʒe/

Noun

шерже • (šerže)

  1. hoar, gray hair
    Сакалосо ламо шерже.
    Sakaloso lamo šerže .
    There is a lot of gray in the beard.

References
  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “шерже”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  1. Riho Grünthal. Baltic loanwords in Mordvin, p. 331-332
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