Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/täštä

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

Unknown. Possibly borrowed from a substrate language (the Pre-West Uralic agricultural substrate).

Noun

*täštä (Finno-Volgaic)

1. star
2. sign, mark

Descendants

• Proto-Mari:
  • Eastern Mari: тиште (tište)
  • Western Mari: тиштӹ (tištÿ)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *täšťə
  • Erzya: теште (ťešťe)
  • Moksha: тяште (ťašťe)
• Proto-Samic: *tāstē, *tāsnē (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *tähti (see there for further descendants)