Jumala
Sign in to savethumb|The word as the name of God in a Finnish Lutheran church in Russia ( – ) (), () or (Mari) means in the Finnic languages and those of the Volga Finns (Mari, Erzya and Moksha languages), both the Christian God and any other deity of any religion. The word is thought to have been the name of a sky god of the ancient Finnic-speaking peoples. Jumala as a god of the sky is associated with the related Estonian , Mari and is thought to stem from an ancient tradition of the Finno-Ugric peoples.
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- Etymology
- Jumal
- Jómali<span class="anchor" id="Jómali"></span>
- See also
- References
- Sources
thumb|The word as the name of God in a Finnish Lutheran church in Russia ( – ) (), () or (Mari) means in the Finnic languages and those of the Volga Finns (Mari, Erzya and Moksha languages), both the Christian God and any other deity of any religion. The word is thought to have been the name of a sky god of the ancient Finnic-speaking peoples. Jumala as a god of the sky is associated with the related Estonian , Mari and is thought to stem from an ancient tradition of the Finno-Ugric peoples.
==Etymology== The Finnic and Mari terms for are usually considered to derive from a common Finno-Permic root . Related terms have been proposed to be found also in the Mordvinic languages: ёндол , interpretable as an old compound meaning (cf. тол ). A single 17th-century source on Mordvinic moreover mentions Jumishipas as the name of a pre-Christian deity. The exact meaning of this however remains unclear (cf. ши , пас ).