Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/ćäjćemä

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

Alternative forms

*ćäjććemä

Reconstruction

Per AIkio (UED draft, 2020), who has shown that the word has regular Samoyedic cognates: *ćäjć(ć)imä > *säjsəmə > *säjsmə > *säjʔmə, with later reduction to *säjʔwə.

Before the Samoyedic cognates were shown to be regular, there were other theories regarding this word. According to Napolskikh (1995), the western reflexes may have consisted of one or more loans from an early Balto-Slavic form *setĭmĭ (later Proto-Slavic *sedmь), if one were to assume for this a palatalized pronunciation of *s and *t. Napolskikh also considered Proto-Samoyedic *säjkwə to derive from Tocharian.

Numeral

*ćäjćemä

seven

Descendants

Proto-Samoyedic: *säjʔwə
- Tundra Nenets: [script needed] (śīʔwᵊ)
- Forest Enets: [Term?] (säu, säʔu)
- Tundra Enets: [Term?] (seʔo)
- Nganasan: [script needed] (śajbə)
- Selkup: [script needed] (seľči̮)
- Kamassian: [script needed] (sejʔbù)
- Mator: [script needed] (kejʔbe)
Proto-Mari: *šĭšəm
- Western Mari: шӹм (šÿm)
- Eastern Mari: шым (šym), шишим (šišim)
Proto-Permic: *śiźim
- Komi:
  - Komi-Permyak: сизим (sizim)
  - Komi-Zyrian: сизим (sizim)
- Udmurt: сизьым (sizʹym)
Proto-Mordvinic: *śiśəm
- Erzya: сисем (sisem)
- Moksha: сисем (sisem)
Proto-Samic: *čiečëm (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Finnic: *säic'en (see there for further descendants)

References

Aikio, Ante. Uralic Etymological Dictionary (draft, 2020).
Napolskikh, V. V. 1995. "Uralic 'seven'". In Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 86, pp. 119–128.

External links

Entry #1588 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.