ловсо

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *lüpsä (“milk”). Cognate with Moksha лофца (lofca), Finnish lypsää, Estonian lüpsma, Livonian lipsõ (“to milk”).

Noun

ловсо • (lovso)

  1. milk

References
  • B. A. Serebrennikov; R. N. Buzakova; M. V. Mosin (1993), “ловсо”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #1396 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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