-нк

Moksha

Etymology

Via intermediate *-nə̑k, from Proto-Mordvinic *-nmə̑k, from Proto-Uralic *-n-mVk. Under the influence of the 1st person singular possessive suffix -зе (-źe) a vowel was added in nominative, genitive and dative, the other cases contain this suffix without this innovation.[1]

Suffix

-нк • (-nk)

  1. 1st person plural possessive suffix; our
  2. added to postpositions that refer to the 1st person plural
    • O. Je. Poljakov (1995) Učimsja govoritʹ po-mokšanski [Let's learn to speak Moksha], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN
      Инголенк ащесть кафта ведаркат. Васенцеса ульсть марьхть, омбоцеса — шукшторуфт.
      Ingoľe nk aščesť kafta vedarkat. Vaśenćesa uľsť maŕhť, omboćesa — šukštoruft.
      In front of us there were two buckets. In the first one there were apples, in the second one — currant.

Declension
1st person plural (минь (miń, “our”)) possessive inflection
singular plural
nominative -ньке (-ńke) —
genitive -ньконь (-ńkoń) —
dative -ньконди (-ńkonďi) —
ablative -донк (-donk) —
inessive -сонк (-sonk) —
elative -стонк (-stonk) —
illative -зонк (-zonk) —
prolative -ванк (-vank) —
comparative -шканк (-škank) —
translative — —
abessive -фтомонк (-ftomonk) —
causative — —

Derived terms
Moksha terms suffixed with -нк

References
  1. Serebrennikov, B. A. (1967) Istoričeskaja morfologija mordovskix jazykov [Historical morphology of the Mordvinic languages] (in Russian), Moskva, page 65
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