< Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic
Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/pälkä
Proto-Uralic
Etymology
Sometimes compared with Indo-European words (i.e. Latin pollex, Proto-Slavic *palьcь).
Noun
*pälkä
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Descendants
- Proto-Samoyedic:
- Nenets
- Tundra Nenets: пикця
- Nenets
- Proto-Permic: *pᴕ̈l (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Mordvinic: *päĺəkə (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Samic: *pealkē (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Finnic: *peikälo (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- Entry #723 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.