Souls can also materialize in different ways: as a visible shadow, a breath of air, a reflection in water, or even a bird. After death, some souls go to the realm of the dead, while others remain on earth for a certain period of time, where they can harm the bereaved.

Я-та, са̄ль :(
То̄внакт ва̄лмум ла̄тыӈта̄л. Ла̄тӈыт ат номылматаве.

Yeah, sadly some don't work proper :(

Пася пася! Наӈ ма̄ньси ла̄тӈыл ёмасякв хансуӈкве ве̄рме̄гын! Наӈ тыи толмасьлан утыл хассын? :>

I only now come back to this.
It's because they are cognates :>
Some aren't though, and that's just coincidence then

It was sorta out of respect for the bear, not to call it's name, but yeah haha

There is also other names,
ню̄рмуй
пупакве
ӯнтуй
то̄рев (nowadays only polar bears)
пурнуй
ect.

There are recorded words in other Mansi varieties, like Eastern (Konda) Mansi:

выйяньсих [wɘjænʲsʲix]

Or Souther (Tavda) Mansi:

tå̄rėŋ or äńšuχ ~ äńčuχ

The original word for bear was avoided so much by the Hungarians, we got the taboo name for it from a slavic language.

Northern Mansi had the same, so they don't have the original word for bear neither. They call it во̄рто̄лно̄йка or во̄рто̄лнут "in forest living old man" or "in forest living thing".

Even Mansi say ся̄й
(the macron is wrong on blueksy, that's a shame)

While Uralic languages;

Finnish - äiti
Hungarian - anya
(Northern) Mansi - ся̄нь / ома
(Kazym) Khanty - аӈки
Ingrian - emä
Inari Sami - enni
Kildin Samj - е̄ннҍ
Lule Sami - ieddne
Skolt Sami - jeä'nn
Southern Sami - tjidtjie
Erzya - ава
Estonian - ema
Komi-Zyrian - мам, ань
Livonian - jemа̄

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