Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/mërja

This Proto-Uralic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Uralic

Reconstruction

*ë can be reconstructed on the basis of Mari (Aikio 2014), though no confirmation from more eastern languages is available. Rédei (1988) mentions uncertain reflexes from the Ob-Ugric languages, possibly better derived from *mura.

Noun

*mërja

berry

Descendants

Mari:
- Eastern Mari: мӧр (mör)
- Western Mari: мӧр (mör)
Mordvinic:
- Erzya: марь (marʹ)
- Moksha: марь (marʹ)
Samic: *muorjē (see there for further descendants)
Finnic: *marja (see there for further descendants)

References

Aikio, Ante. 2014. "On the reconstruction of Proto-Mari vocalism". In Journal of Language Relationship 11, pp. 125–157.
Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó

External links

Entry #521 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.