Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/neljä
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Proto-Uralic
[edit]Reconstruction
[edit]Reconstructed in several sources as *ńeljä, but according to Honti (1993) and Aikio (2014), the initial palatal nasal is apparently a widespread secondary development, presumably due to the influence of the word-medial palatal glide *-j-. An original unpalatalized nasal is supported by Hungarian, Mari, and most Samic languages.
Numeral
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Cardinal : *neljä | ||
*neljä
Descendants
[edit]- Ugric:
- Proto-Permic: *ńöľ (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Mari: *nĭl (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Mordvinic: *ńiľə
- Proto-Samic: *nealjē (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Finnic: *neljä (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]Aikio, Ante. 2014. "On the reconstruction of Proto-Mari vocalism". In Journal of Language Relationship 11, pp. 125–157. Honti, László. 1993. Die Grundzahlwörter der uralischen Sprachen ('The Basic Numerals of the Uralic Languages'). Bibliotheca Uralica 11. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. →ISBN
External links
[edit]- Entry #620 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.