тев

From Proto-Mordvinic *tevə~*ťevə, from Proto-Finno-Permic [Finno-Volgaic] *tewe, whence Finnish työ, Veps tö, Livonian tīe.

Can be reanalyzed as derivative from теемс (ťejems) with -в (-v) suffix, mostly unproductive.

тев • (ťev)

1. deed, act, thing

   тевс ютавтнемс ― ťevs jutavtńems ― to materialize

   • 1910, Makar Evsevievich Evseviev, Gospoda nashego Iisusa Hrista Svyatoe Evangelie ot Matfeya, Marka, Luki i Ioanna na mordovskom yazyke‎, page 231:

     Мон ёвтынь теҥк мастор лаҥгонь тевде, да тынь а кемдядо, — кода ино кемдядо, ёвтыньдерян теҥк менелень тевде?

     Mon jovtiń ťeҥk mastor laҥgoń ťevďe , da tiń a kemďado, — koda ino kemďado, jovtińďeŕan ťeҥk meńeľeń ťevďe ?

     I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?

2. case

   тевате тевсэнть ― ťevaťe ťevsenť ― in this case

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

• nouns: теввал (ťevval, “verb”), тевтеиця (ťevťejića, “worker”)

• B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “тев”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
• Entry #1643 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎, Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.