Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/woje-

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

The form *wäjä- is also possible according to Ante Aikio (2016), meaning a regular shift of *ä-ä to *a-i would have happened in Pre-Proto-Finnic (see *koi), making Proto-Samic *veajētēk a descendant and the Hungarian verb unrelated.

Verb

*woje-

1. can, to be able

Descendants

• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: vív (“to fight; to besiege; to fence”)
• Proto-Finnic: *voidak (see there for further descendants)

External links

• Entry #1157 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Aikio, Ante. 2016. "The Finnic 'secondary e-stems' and Proto-Uralic vocalism". Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 95, pp. 25–66.