афоль

Moksha

FWOTD – 24 October 2016

Etymology

Evidently a third-person singular past II / subjunctive copulative (conjugated) form of the particle аф (af) (morphologically: аф (af) + -о- (-o-) + -ль (-lʹ)), compare, for example, мораль (moralʹ, he/she/it would sing ~ would have sung), see апак (apak) for suggested cognates.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑfəlʲ/

Particle

афоль (afolʹ)

  1. third-person singular subjunctive copulative of аф (af); he/she/it wouldn't

Particle

афоль (afolʹ)

  1. (subjunctive) not, would not, wouldn't
    • V. I. Ščankina (2011) Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk, →ISBN
      ни 1 частица — афоль/тяза, тят
      ni 1 častica — afolʹ/tjaza, tjat
      not particle [in Russian] — not
      как бы то ни было — кода афоль/тяза уле
      kak by to ni bylo — koda afolʹ/tjaza ule
      however it may be [in Russian] — however it may be
      (literally, “how it wouldn't [or would] be”)
    • A. P. Feoktistov (1993), Jazyki mira: Uralʹskije jazyki (MOKŠANSKIJ JaZYK) [Languages of the world: Uralic languages (Moksha language)], Moscow, pages 178—189
      афолеть шарьхкоде
      afoletʹ šarʹxkode
      [you] wouldn't understand
      афольхть са
      afolʹxtʹ sa
      [they probably] wouldn't have come
    • СЯСЬКОМА // МОКШЕНЬ ЛИТЕРАТУРНО-ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЙ АЛЬМАНАХ, САРАНСК-195З
      (..) афолень уле (..)
      (..) afolenʹ ule (..)
      (..) [I] wouldn't be (..)
    • ЛОМАНЕНЬ ШИРЕВА, САРАНСК-1955
      (..) миньге Сибирьда афолеме пеле...
      (..) minʹge Sibirʹda afoleme pele...
      (..) we too(?) wouldn't be afraid of Siberia...
      (..) кда тинь колмоцьке афоледе уле (..)
      (..) kda tinʹ kolmocʹke afolede ule (..)
      (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • тяза (tjaza)

Coordinate terms

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