Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/śilmä

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

Noun

*śilmä

eye

Descendants

Proto-Samoyedic: *səjmä (see there for further descendants)
Ugric:
- Hungarian: szem
- Ob-Ugric: *sem
  - Proto-Mansi: *šäm
    - Northern: сам (sam)
    - Southern, Western, Eastern: [script needed] (šäm)
  - Proto-Khanty: *seem /se:m/
    - Khanty: сем (sem)
Proto-Permic: *śin (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Mari: *šĭńća (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Mordvinic:
- Erzya: сельме (selʹme)
- Moksha: сельме (selʹme)
Proto-Samic: *čëlmē (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Finnic: *silmä (see there for further descendants)

References

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 #964 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.

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