Reconstruction:Proto-Mari/lŭm

This Proto-Mari 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-Mari

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *lome. Cognates include Proto-Finnic *lumi and Proto-Samic *lomë.

Noun

*lŭm

1. snow

Descendants

• Eastern Mari: лум (lum)
• Western Mari: лым (lym)

References

• Gábor Bereczki (2013) “lum”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Tscheremissischen (Mari) [Etymological dictionary of the Cheremiss language (Mari)], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN
• Aikio, Ante. 2014. "On the reconstruction of Proto-Mari vocalism". In Journal of Language Relationship 11, pp. 125–157.