хусьвит

Northern Mansi

Alternative forms
  • [script needed] (khuś ~ khuš) (Central Mansi)
  • [script needed] (khuś) (Southern Mansi)

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *kuńśe (“urine; urinate”)[1] + вит (wit, “water”). Cognates include Hungarian húgy.

Noun

хусьвит (husʹwit)

  1. urine

References
  1. Entry #408 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

Further reading
  • Mansi Dictionary of Munkácsi and Kálmán
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