ташто

Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Mordvinic *taštə, perhaps inherited from Proto-Finno-Permic [Term?] [Finno-Volgaic] *tašta. Compare Western Mari тошты (tošty) and Eastern Mari тошто (tošto).

Adjective

ташто • (tašto)

1. old (of things)
   • 1865, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Das Evangelium des Matthäus ersamordwinisch, page 28:

     Kijak a polady od panks tašto oďožanen; od panksoś razdevi oďožado, i vaŕaś uli sede pokš.

     No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.

References

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “ташто”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎^[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tâʃto/
• Hyphenation: та‧што

Adverb

та̏што (Latin spelling tȁšto)

1. vainly