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Д.В. Цыганкин.

Словообразовательный потенциал прафинно-угорского суффикса -. в мордовских, хантыйском и мансийском языках

// Труды КарНЦ РАН. No 3. Серия Гуманитарные исследования. 2014. C. 83-89

D.V. Tsygankin. The word building potential of the protofinnourgic suffix ŋ in mordvin, the khanty, and the mansi languages // Transactions of Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Science. No 3. Humanitarian studies. 2014. Pp. 83-89

Keywords: word.building suffix, suffix potential, the Khanty language, the Mansi language, Mordvin languages

The paper considers the potential the Finno.Ugric (Uralic) word.building suffix .ŋ has in Mordvin, the Khanty and the Mansi languages. Its genetic affinity in the named languages is proved, and the main semantic functions are analyzed. The phonetic modifications the suffix has undergone in the Moksha language are traced.