Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/sente-

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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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Koivulehto proposed that the word is an old loan from Proto-Iranian *zan- (to beget), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-,[1] but Aikio rejects the etymology on morphological, phonological and distribution grounds.[2]

Verb[edit]

*sente-

  1. to multiply, be born?

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Ugric:
    • >? Hungarian: ellik

References[edit]

  1. ^ Koivulehto, Jorma. The earliest contacts between Indo-European and Uralic speakers in the light of lexical loans, pp. 254–255. Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations (SUST 242), pp. 235–264, Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, Helsinki, 2007.
  2. ^ Aikio, Ante (2020) “Studies in Uralic Etymology V: Permic Etymologies”, in Linguistica Uralica[1], volume 57, number 3, Estonian Academy Publishers, →ISSN, page 171 of 161–179:PU *senti-w- > […] PPerm (PS) *sud- / (MZh) *sȯd-

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