Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/towe

This Proto-Uralic entry contains reconstructed terms 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

Sammallahti (1988) reconstructs *toxe, supposing that only *x is word-medially lost in Samoyedic. According to Aikio (2002: 35, 49), also the semivowels *j, *w were lost before 2nd-syllable *e (compare e.g. *sewe-, *śowe), which would allow the reconstruction *towe.

Noun

*towe

lake, pond

Descendants

Proto-Samoyedic: *to
- Nganasan: турку
- Enets:
  - Forest Enets: то
  - Tundra Enets: [Term?] (to)
- Nenets:
  - Forest Nenets: [script needed] (tō)
  - Tundra Nenets: то (tō)
- Selkup: то
- Kamassian: [script needed] (tʰu), [script needed] (tō)
- Mator: тоа
Ugric:
- Hungarian: tó
- Mansi:
  - Northern: тӯр (tūr)
  - Southern: то̄ (tō)
- Khanty: *toɣ
  - Northern: тув (tuw)
  - Eastern: төг (tôg)
Permic:
- Komi:
  - Komi-Permyak: ты (ty)
  - Komi-Zyrian: ты (ty)
- Udmurt: ты (ty)

References

Aikio, Ante. 2002. "New and Old Samoyed Etymologies". Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 57, pp. 9–57.
Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
Sammallahti, Pekka (1988), “Historical Phonology of the Uralic Languages”, in Denis, Sinor, editor, The Uralic Languages: Description, History and Foreign Influences, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, pages 478-554

External links

Entry #1070 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.