Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/sewe-

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

Koivulehto (2006) suggests borrowing from early Proto-Iranian *dzyewH- (later *ǰyawH-), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewH-, though this has chronological problems: the sound change *e > *a is usually dated as already common Indo-Iranian.

Verb

*sewe-

1. to eat

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *timä (“tooth”)
  • Nenets:
    • Tundra Nenets: тибя (tibja)
  • Nganasan: чими (čimi)
• Ugric:
  • Mansi
    • Northern:
  • Hungarian: eszik
• Permic:
  • Komi-Zyrian: сёйны (śojny)
  • Udmurt: сиыны (śiyny)
• Mordvinic:
  • Erzya: севемс (śevems)
  • Moksha: севемс (śevems)
• (see there for further descendants)

References

• Koivulehto, Jorma. 2006. "Wie alt sind die Kontakte zwischen Finnisch-Ugrisch und Balto-Slavisch?" In: Juhani Nuorluoto (ed.), The Slavicization of the Russian North. Mechanisms and Chronology. Slavica Helsingiensia 27: 179–196.

External links

• Entry #893 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.