мон

mon (romanization)
мон (indefinite nominative singular)
минь (indefinite nominative plural)
монь (genitive indefinite singular)
минь (genitive indefinite plural)
тейне (dative indefinite singular)
тейнек (dative indefinite plural)
мондедон (ablative indefinite singular)
миндедонк (ablative indefinite plural)
моньцон (indefinite inessive singular)
миньцонк (indefinite inessive plural)
моньцтон (elative indefinite singular)
миньцтонк (elative indefinite plural)
моньшкан (comparative indefinite singular)
миньшканк (comparative indefinite plural)
моньфтемон (abessive indefinite singular)
миньфтемонк (abessive indefinite plural)
монць (definite nominative singular)
минць (definite nominative plural)
монцень (definite genitive singular)
минцень (definite genitive plural)

From Proto-Mordvinic *mon, likely from Proto-Uralic *minä. Cognates include Finnish minä, Hungarian én, Erzya мон (mon), Northern Sami mon.

монць — я сам
monć — ja sam
I myself — I myself [in Russian]
монцень — свой
monceń — svoj

O. Je. Poljakov (1993) Russko-mokšanskij razgovornik [Russian-Moksha phrasebook], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 20

(first person singular personal pronoun) I


тон

ton (romanization)
тон (indefinite nominative singular)
тинь (indefinite nominative plural)
тонь (genitive indefinite singular)
тинь (genitive indefinite plural)
тейть (dative indefinite singular)
тейнть (dative indefinite plural)
тондедот (ablative indefinite singular)
тиндедонт (ablative indefinite plural)
тоньцот (indefinite inessive singular)
тиньцонт (indefinite inessive plural)
тоньцтот (elative indefinite singular)
тиньцтонт (elative indefinite plural)
тоньшкат (comparative indefinite singular)
тиньшкант (comparative indefinite plural)
тоньфтемот (abessive indefinite singular)
тиньфтемонт (abessive indefinite plural)
тонць (definite nominative singular)
тинць (definite nominative plural)
тонцень (definite genitive singular)
тинцень (definite genitive plural)

From Proto-Mordvinic *ton, perhaps from Proto-Uralic *tinä. Cognates include Erzya тон (ton), Finnish sinä, Skolt Sami ton, Northern Sami don, Western Mari тӹнь (tÿń), Komi-Zyrian тэ (te), Udmurt тон (ton), Hungarian te, Nganasan [script needed] (tannaŋ), Northern Selkup тан (tan).


сон

son (romanization)
сон (indefinite nominative singular)
синь (indefinite nominative plural)
сонь (genitive indefinite singular)
синь (genitive indefinite plural)
тейнза (dative indefinite singular)
тейст (dative indefinite plural)
сондедонза (ablative indefinite singular)
синдедост (ablative indefinite plural)
соньцонза (indefinite inessive singular)
синьцост (indefinite inessive plural)
соньцтонза (elative indefinite singular)
синьцтост (elative indefinite plural)
соньшканза (comparative indefinite singular)
синьшкаст (comparative indefinite plural)
соньфтемонза (abessive indefinite singular)
синьфтемост (abessive indefinite plural)
сонць (definite nominative singular)
синць (definite nominative plural)
сонцень (definite genitive singular)
синцень (definite genitive plural)

Cognates include Erzya сон (son), Northern Sami son, Finnish hän, Eastern Khanty лӫг (lø̈g), Northern Mansi [script needed] (taw), Hungarian ő.

(2005), Apostolxneń tevsna [Acts of the Apostles], Helsinki: Biblijäń jotaftoma institutś [Institute for Bible Translation]
Тейст Сон эвондакшнесь нильгемонь шинь кувалма крёз лангса муцендамдонза меле. Иисус ламоксть верондафтозь няфтезе – Сон меки шиса: синь Сонь няезь и Сон азондсь тейст Шкаень Оцязорксшить колга.
Tejst Son evondakšneś niĺgemoń šiń kuvalma kŕoz langsa mucendamdonza mele. Ijisus lamoksť verondaftoź näfteze – Son meki šisa: siń Soń näjeź i Son azondś tejst Škajeń Ocäzorksšiť kolga.
He had shown himself alive to them after his Passion by many demonstrations: for forty days he had continued to appear to them and tell them about the kingdom of God.


синь

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синь • (siń)

Cognates include Erzya сынь (sïń), perhaps cognate with Northern Sami sii.


тя

tä (romanization)
тя (indefinite nominative singular)
нят (indefinite nominative plural)
тянь (genitive indefinite singular)
нятнень (genitive indefinite plural)
тянди (dative indefinite singular)
нятненди (dative indefinite plural)
тяда (ablative indefinite singular)
тяшка (comparative indefinite singular)
тяфтома (abessive indefinite singular)
тянкса (causative indefinite singular)

Cognates include Erzya те (te), Northern Sami dát, Finnish tämä.

V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN
аналогичный — тянь/сянь кодяма
analogičnïj — täń /säń kodäma
analogical [in Russian] — analogical
откуда что берётся? — коста тя сембе?
otkuda čto beŕotsä? — kosta tä sembe?
where do things come from? [in Russian] — where [is] this all from?
в этот день — тя шиста, тя шиня
v etot deń — tä šista, tä šinä
in this day [in Russian] — in this day
Вон отсюда! — Ворьхть тяста!
Von otśuda ! — Vorxť tästa !
Scram! (~ go away!) [in Russian] — Scram (away from here)!
впредь — тяда меле
vpreď — täda mele
from now on [in Russian] — from now on/henceforth
для этого — тянкса
dlä etogo — tänksa
for this [in Russian] — for this (~ because of this)

O. Je. Poljakov (1993) Russko-mokšanskij razgovornik [Russian-Moksha phrasebook], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN
нят «эти» (..) ня «эти»
nät «eti» (..) nä «eti»
these "these" [in Russian]


мезе

meze (romanization)
мезе (indefinite nominative singular)
мезень (genitive indefinite singular)
мезенди (dative indefinite singular)
мезьда (ablative indefinite singular)
мезьса (indefinite inessive singular)
мезьста (elative indefinite singular)
мезьс (illative indefinite singular)
мезьга (indefinite prolative singular)
мезьшка (comparative indefinite singular)
мезькс (indefinite singular translative)
мезьфтома (abessive indefinite singular)
мезенкса (causative indefinite singular)

From Proto-Mordvinic *meźə, compounded from *me- (“what”) and *śe (“this”). Cognates include Erzya мезе (meze), Finnish mikä, Estonian mis, Livonian mis, Northern Sami [Term?] (mii), Eastern Mari мо (mo), Komi-Zyrian мый (myj), Udmurt ма (ma), Northern Khanty мўй (mŭj), Northern Mansi ма̄ныр (mānyr), Hungarian mi.

ули мезенкса ― uli mezenksa ― to be worth

V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk аш мезе, аш месть ― aš meze, aš mesť ― nothing мезе-бъди, кати-мезе ― meze-bədi, kati-meze ― something мезевок ― mezevok ― nothing лия мезе ― lijä meze ― type (variety/character of something)


ся

sä (romanization)
ся (indefinite nominative singular)
сят (indefinite nominative plural)
сянь (genitive indefinite singular)
сятнень (genitive indefinite plural)
сянди (dative indefinite singular)
сятненди (dative indefinite plural)
сяда (ablative indefinite singular)
сяс (illative indefinite singular)
сяшка (comparative indefinite singular)
сяфтома (abessive indefinite singular)
сянкса (causative indefinite singular)

From Proto-Mordvinic *śe, from Proto-Uralic *śe (“it”). Cognates include Erzya се (se), Finnish se, Estonian see.

сяс мес
säs mes
because
сяс, сянкса
säs , sänksa
therefore
эста, ся пингть

V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk ся и тона sä i tona that and the other сяда меле säda mele after that сянкса, сянкса штоба, сянь кувалма sänksa, sänksa štoba, säń kuvalma because of that, as a consequence (of that)


сембе

сембе • (śembä)

śembä (romanization)
сембе (indefinite nominative singular)
сембот (indefinite nominative plural)
сембонь (genitive indefinite singular)
сембонди (dative indefinite singular)
сембода (ablative indefinite singular)
сембоса (indefinite inessive singular)
сембоста (elative indefinite singular)
сембос (illative indefinite singular)
сембова (indefinite prolative singular)
сембошка (comparative indefinite singular)
сембокс (indefinite singular translative)
сембофтома (abessive indefinite singular)
сембонкса (causative indefinite singular)

This term corresponds to the pronoun ся (sä, “that”) with an element -mp/-mb which is cognate with Finnish -mpi and Hungarian -bb (comparative suffix). Moksha омба (omba, “other”) (> омбоце (omboce, “second”)) is derived the same way, with the element o- of pronominal origin. These are some of the only vestiges of this conjectured -mb suffix in the Mordvinic languages.
Serebrennikov, however, thinks that analytic/periphrastic formation of comparatives of adjectives was the original Uralic way of doing this. On the question what function this suffix served then, he offers Komi-Zyrian -ӧб (-öb), e.g., резӧб (rezöb, “lively, perky”), Wichmann, considering -õb a descendant of *-mb, called such formations nomina augmentativa or intensiva, thus this suffix would have served to intensify possession of some characteristic. In Moksha a different suffix (-нга (-nga) added to the ablative) is used as an intensifier, this is apparently how the comparative preposition сядонга (sädonga) is derived but it is productive with other nominals as well.
Comparatives are otherwise expressed periphrastically in Moksha, see, for example, сире (sire, “old”).

O. Je. Poljakov (1995) Učimsja govoritʹ po-mokšanski [Let's learn to speak Moksha], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN, page 19
Азан спасиба сембонкса!
Azan spasiba sembonksa !
I thank you for everything!

сембонь, марнек (совсем)
semboń , marnek (sovsem)
entirely, entirely (entirely [in Russian])
аф сембонди содама
af sembondi sodama
hidden, secret (lit. "not knowledge to everyone")
сембоса
sembosa
all around, in entirety
так или иначе — сембе сяка
tak ili inače — sembe säka

V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk сивомс сембонь sivoms semboń to eat up (lit. "to eat of all")

either way ~ all the same [in Russian] — either way ~ all the same


эсь

eś (romanization)
эсь (indefinite nominative singular)
эстейне (dative indefinite singular)
эстейнек (dative indefinite plural)
эстедон (ablative indefinite singular)
эстедонк (ablative indefinite plural)
эсьсон (indefinite inessive singular)
эсьсонк (indefinite inessive plural)
эсьстон (elative indefinite singular)
эсьстонк (elative indefinite plural)
эсезон (illative indefinite singular)
эсезонк (illative indefinite plural)
эсеван (indefinite prolative singular)
эсеванк (indefinite plural prolative)
эсьшкан (comparative indefinite singular)
эсьшканк (comparative indefinite plural)
эсьфтемон (abessive indefinite singular)
эсьфтемонк (abessive indefinite plural)
эсь (indefinite nominative singular)
эстейть (dative indefinite singular)
эстейнть (dative indefinite plural)
эстедот (ablative indefinite singular)
эстедонт (ablative indefinite plural)
эсьсот (indefinite inessive singular)
эсьсонт (indefinite inessive plural)
эсьстот (elative indefinite singular)
эсьстонт (elative indefinite plural)
эсезот (illative indefinite singular)
эсезонт (illative indefinite plural)
эсеват (indefinite prolative singular)
эсевант (indefinite plural prolative)
эсьшкат (comparative indefinite singular)
эсьшкант (comparative indefinite plural)
эсьфтемот (abessive indefinite singular)
эсьфтемонт (abessive indefinite plural)
эстейнза (dative indefinite singular)
эстейст (dative indefinite plural)
эстедонза (ablative indefinite singular)
эстедост (ablative indefinite plural)
эсьсонза (indefinite inessive singular)
эсьсост (indefinite inessive plural)
эсьстонза (elative indefinite singular)
эсьстост (elative indefinite plural)
эсезонза (illative indefinite singular)
эсезост (illative indefinite plural)
эсеванза (indefinite prolative singular)
эсеваст (indefinite plural prolative)
эсьшканза (comparative indefinite singular)
эсьшкаст (comparative indefinite plural)
эсьфтемонза (abessive indefinite singular)
эсьфтемост (abessive indefinite plural)

From Proto-Mordvinic *iśə, from Pre-Mordvinic *ićə, inherited from Proto-Uralic *ić(ć)e (“shadow; shadow soul”). Cognates include Erzya эсь (eś), Finnish itse, Estonian ise, Livonian īž, Northern Sami ieš, Eastern Mari шке (ške), Udmurt ачим (aćim), Komi-Zyrian ачым (aćym), Northern Khanty ис (is).

inh

V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN
эсь, фкя веронь
eś , fkä veroń
related by blood

мон - тон - сон - минь - тинь - синь

Personal pronouns (личнай местоимениятне (ličnaj mestojimenijätne))

Definite personal pronouns (виияфтома-личнай местоимениятне (vijijäftoma - ličnaj mestojimenijätne))

монць - тонць - сонць - минць - тинць - синць

монцень - тонцень - сонцень - минцень - тинцень - синцень

тя - нят

Demonstrative pronouns (няфтемань местоимениятне (näftemań mestojimenijätne))


кие

kije (romanization)
кие (indefinite nominative singular)
кит (indefinite nominative plural)
кинь (genitive indefinite singular)
кинди (dative indefinite singular)
кида (ablative indefinite singular)
киса (indefinite inessive singular)
киста (elative indefinite singular)
кис (illative indefinite singular)
кива (indefinite prolative singular)
кига (indefinite prolative singular)
кишка (comparative indefinite singular)
кикс (indefinite singular translative)
кифтома (abessive indefinite singular)
кинкса (causative indefinite singular)
кият (second-person singular)
китада (plural)

From Proto-Mordvinic *kijə, from Proto-Uralic *ke (+ *-gä ~ *-kä). Cognates include кие (kije), Finnish ken, Estonian kes, Northern Sami gii, Eastern Mari кӧ (kö), Komi-Zyrian кин (kin), Udmurt кин (kin), Hungarian ki.

V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN
бог его знает — кие содасы
bog jego znajet — kije sodasï
god knows [in Russian] — who knows
некого — аш кинь
nekogo — aš kiń
empty, deserted [in Russian] — empty, (there is) no one
кто-либо — кие-кие, кивок
kto-libo — kije-kije , kivok
anyone [in Russian] — anyone

кинь-кинь
kiń-kiń
anyone, someone [object]
кинди-кинди

O. Je. Poljakov (1993) Russko-mokšanskij razgovornik [Russian-Moksha phrasebook], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, page 22


фкя-фкянь

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фкя-фкянь • (fkä-fkäń)

fkä-fkäń (romanization)
фкя-фкянь (genitive indefinite singular)
фкя-фкянди (dative indefinite singular)
фкя-фкада (ablative indefinite singular)
фкя-фкаса (indefinite inessive singular)
фкя-фкаста (elative indefinite singular)
фкя-фкас (illative indefinite singular)
фкя-фкава (indefinite prolative singular)
фкя-фкашка (comparative indefinite singular)
фкя-фкакс (indefinite singular translative)
фкя-фкафтома (abessive indefinite singular)
фкя-фканкса (causative indefinite singular)

/fʲkʲæ fʲkʲænʲ/

compound

фкя (fkä) + фкянь (fkäń)

O. Je. Poljakov (1993) Russko-mokšanskij razgovornik [Russian-Moksha phrasebook], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN
Тинь фкя-фкянь содатада?
Tiń fkä-fkäń sodatada?
Do you know each other?
Минь нинге фкя-фкянь аф содатама.
Miń ninge fkä-fkäń af sodatama.
We do not yet know each other

Fenno-Ugrica
(..) Мес синь фкя фкада аф пялькстыхть, // А работайхть—одсь и сиресь— // Аньцек фкя-фкянь мялень ванозь, // Фкя-фкянди эрь мезь (мезе?) угадязь.
(..) Mes siń fkä fkada af päĺkstïhť, // A rabotajhť—odś i sireś— // Ancek fkä-fkäń mäleń vanoź, // Fkä-fkändi eŕ meź (meze?) ugadäź.