Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/počaw

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

Borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *páću, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“cattle”). Only found in the Finno-Permic languages, and likely borrowed after the breakup of Proto-Uralic proper: a parallel loan *peečəɣ is found in the Ob-Ugric languages, which was likely adopted already before the Indo-Iranian sound change *e > *a.

Reconstruction

Sammallahti and Rédei reconstruct *poča. Koivulehto (2007) notes that the labial stem vowel in Samic is likely to derive already from the Indo-European loan original, rather than from later suffixation.

Noun

*počaw

1. (Finno-Permic) reindeer

Descendants

• Proto-Permic: *pᴕ̈ǯ (see there for further descendants)
• Mari
  • Eastern Mari: пӱчӧ (püčö)
  • Western Mari: пучы (pučy)
• Proto-Samic: *poacōj (see there for further descendants)
  • →? Finnish: poro (or inherited from *počaw and later reshaped)
    • → Estonian: poro

References

• Koivulehto, Jorma. 2007. Saamen ja suomen 'poro' ('"Reindeer" in Sami and Finnish').
• Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
• Sammallahti, Pekka (1988) “Historical Phonology of the Uralic Languages”, in Denis, Sinor, editor, The Uralic Languages: Description, History and Foreign Influences, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, pages 478-554

External links

• Entry #780 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.