Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/ćäjćemä

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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

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Alternative forms

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  • *ćäjććemä

Reconstruction

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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

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Proto-Uralic cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : *ćäjćemä

*ćäjćemä

  1. seven

Descendants

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  • Proto-Samoyedic: *säjʔwə
  • Proto-Permic: *śiźim (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Mari: *šĭšəm (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Mordvinic: *śiśəm
  • Proto-Samic: *čiečëm (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Finnic: *säic'en (see there for further descendants)

References

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  • Aikio, Ante. Uralic Etymological Dictionary (draft, 2020).
  • Napolskikh, V. V. 1995. "Uralic 'seven'". In Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 86, pp. 119–128.
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