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нь нъ њ Moksha Etymology From mdf urj-pro *-n genitive suffix. Related to myv -нь, fi -n. Suffix mdf suffix genitive suffix mdf дамский — авань ladylike, ladies' [in Russian] — ladylike, ladies' mdf женский — авань female, women's [in Russian] — female, women's Usage notes If the stem ends in a consonant, an epenthetic /ə/ is inserted between the stem and this suffix: -о- if the final consonant of the stem is plain, and -е- if it's palatalized. For example: mdf улав — mdf улавонь, mdf марь — mdf марень. If the stem ends in -й, this letter is replaced with -e-: mdf ляй — mdf ляень. -ь is also replaced. If the stem of a polysyllabic noun ends in -и or -ы, -e- (phonetically /jə/) is inserted between the stem and this suffix: mdf маци — mdf мациень, mdf шары — mdf шарыень. If the stem of a polysyllabic noun ends in -ю or -у, this suffix can be added directly to the stem, or to an epenthetic suffix mdf -во-: mdf куцю — mdf куцюнь or mdf куцювонь, mdf келу — mdf келунь or mdf келувонь. If the stem ends in -а or -е, this suffix causes vowel alternation in shifting vowel-stem nominals such as mdf шуфта — mdf шуфтонь, mdf мокша — mdf мокшень, mdf сельме — mdf сельмонь. In non-shifting vowel-stem nominals, there is no vowel alternation: mdf мода — mdf модань, mdf веле — mdf велень, mdf пря — mdf прянь. Although genitive is an inflected form in its own right, when used as a stand-alone adjective or as an attributive noun, further inflection has been documented, see, for example, mdf мокшень. Declension -нь -ннеса -ннева -ннеть Derived terms mdf Ukrainian Alternative forms uk -знь -снь Etymology 1 uk fem :af sla-pro:*-ьnъ<alt:*-nъ> sla-pro:*-ь 1 ++ Resulting in sla-pro *-nь, parsable as uk - -н(ий) + uk -ь<id:fem><g:f>. Cognate with ru -нь. Suffix uk suffix f noun-forming suffixes Unproductive deverbal and deadjectival suffix used to form nouns denoting a product or a result uk світа́ти to dawn impf світа́нь dayspring, daybreak f uk rare uk пога́ний bad adjective по́гань riffraff collective f-s uk тлі́ти impf to decay тлінь f-s decay, rot Declension -́нь<F> Derived terms uk Etymology 2 Suffix uk suffix form -нь n uk -ння gen p Related terms uk -ань<g:f> -інь<g:f> -янь<g:f> References нь