Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/śeppä

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

Reconstruction

The word can only be reliably reconstructed to Finno-Samic/Western Uralic. Hungarian szép is not a certain descendant due to the semantic gap, and an alternative Turkic etymology for it has also been proposed.

Adjective

*śeppä

1. skilled

Descendants

• Proto-Finnic: *seppä (“smith”)
  • Estonian: sepp
  • Finnish: seppä
  • Ingrian: seppä
  • Karelian: šeppä
  • Livonian: siepā
  • Livvi: seppy
  • Ludian: sepp
  • Veps: sep
  • Võro: sepp
  • Votic: seppe
• Proto-Samic: *čeappē (“skilled, adept”)
  • Western Samic:
    • Southern Sami: tjiehpie, tjiehpies
    • Ume Sami: tjeähppie
    • Pite Sami: tjähppe, tjiehpes
    • Lule Sami: tjiehppe, tjiehpes
    • Northern Sami: čeahppi, čeahpẹs
  • Eastern Samic:
    • Inari Sami: čeppi, čepis
    • Skolt Sami: čeäʹpˈp, čeäppes
    • Akkala Sami: [script needed] (čep)
    • Kildin Sami: че̄һпь (čiehp’), че̄песь (čiep’es’)
    • Ter Sami: че̄һһпе
• >? Hungarian: szép (“beautiful”)

Further reading

• Entry #956 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.