Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/käte

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

Etymology

One of the words reflected only within the traditionally assumed Finno-Ugric subgroup. Samoyedic *utå however appears to be an innovation: in inherited vocabulary *u shifts to *ə before following original *-a, compare e.g. *kupsa-, *muďa, *muna, *puna-.

Noun

*käte

1. hand

Descendants

• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: kéz
  • Khanty:
    • Eastern Khanty: кӧт (köt)
    • Southern Khanty: кет (kjet)
  • Proto-Mansi: *kǟt
    • Eastern Mansi: кӧӓт (köät)
    • Northern Mansi: ка̄т (kāt)
    • Southern Mansi: кӓ̄т (kǟt)
• Proto-Permic: *ki (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mari: *kit (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *käď (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Samic: *kietë (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *käci (see there for further descendants)

References

• 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
• Ante Aikio, Studies in Uralic Etymology V: Permic Etymologies.

External links

• Entry #271 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.