Eastern Mari

Noun

ава • ‎(ava)

1. mother

Erzya

Noun

ава • ‎(ava)

1. woman
2. mother

   авам‎

   avam

   my mother

Moksha

Etymology

According to Feoktistov, from a Turkic language.^[1] Veršinin considers suggestions of borrowing completely baseless, he is convinced that the term is of child language origin (its original meaning being "mother"), according to him, the following are of a similar origin: Eastern Mari ава ‎(ava), Western Mari ӓвӓ ‎(ävä), c.f., dialectal Eastern Mari аппа! ‎(appa!, “[an exclamation for a baby to smile]”), Tundra Nenets [script needed] ‎(āppa, “mother [child language]”). Parallel developments in unrelated languages: Selkup ама ‎(“mother”), Basque ama ‎(“id.”), Nivkh ымык ‎(“id.”), Koryak [script needed] ‎(-aw'-) in [script needed] ‎(ŋaw'gyjnik, “female [animal]”).^[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɑvɑ/

Noun

ава • ‎(ava)

1. lady
   • V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, ISBN 978-5-91940-080-6

     дама — ава‎

     dama — ava

     lady [in Russian] — lady

2. (zoology) female
   • V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, ISBN 978-5-91940-080-6

     самка — ава‎

     samka — ava

     female [in Russian] — female

3. woman
   • V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, ISBN 978-5-91940-080-6

     женщина — ава‎

     ženščina — ava

     woman [in Russian] — woman

4. wife
   • Oahpa, University of Tromsø

     vaimo — ава‎

     vaimo — ava

     wife [in Finnish] — wife

5. mom
   • V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, ISBN 978-5-91940-080-6

     мама — ава/авай‎

     mama — ava/avaj

     mom [in Russian] — mom

Declension

Synonyms

• (mother): тядя ‎(tjadja)

Derived terms

• авань ‎(avanʹ)
• авафтома ‎(avaftoma)
• мокшава ‎(mokšava)
• рузава ‎(ruzava)

References

1. ↑ A. P. Feoktistov (1993), Jazyki mira: Uralʹskije jazyki (MOKŠANSKIJ JaZYK) [Languages of the world: Uralic languages (Moksha language)], Moscow, pages 178—189
2. ↑ Veršinin, V. I. (2004) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ mordovskix (erzjanskovo i mokšanskovo) jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Mordvinic (Erzya and Moksha) languages] (in Russian), volume 1, Joškar Ola, page 5

Russian

Etymology

Clipping of авата́р ‎(avatár, “avatar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈavə]

Noun

а́ва • ‎(áva) f inan ‎(genitive а́вы, nominative plural а́вы, genitive plural ав)

1. (slang) avatar

Declension