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

Proto-Uralic cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : *ćäjćemä

*ćäjćemä

1. seven

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *säjʔwə
  • Forest Nenets: шеˮв (šyeqw), шеˮэв (šyeqew)
  • Tundra Nenets: сӣˮив (syīqyiw°)
  • Forest Enets: сԑу
  • Tundra Enets: [script needed] (seʔo)
  • Nganasan: сяйбә (sjajbə)
  • Selkup:
    • Northern Selkup: селчи (sjelći)
    • Southern Selkup:
      • Narym: хельҗь (xjel’ǯ’)
      • Upper Ob: сиэлдь (sield’)
  • Kamassian: сейʼбӱ (sejʔbü)
  • Mator: [script needed] (kejʔbe)
• Proto-Permic: *śiźim (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mari: *šĭšəm (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *śiśəm
  • Erzya: сисем (śiśem)
  • Moksha: сисем (śiśem)
• 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 Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.