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Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/pire

This Proto-Uralic entry contains reconstructed words 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

*pire

  1. circle

Descendants
  • Mordvinic:
    • Erzya: пире (pire, “(enclosed) vegetable garden”)
    • Moksha: перямс (perjams, “to fence in, enclose”)
  • Finnic: *piiri
  • possibly Komi-Zyrian: бор (bor, “border, garden”)
  • possibly Selkup [script needed] (püüre, “ring”), [script needed] (pyr, “perimeter, round”)

Further reading
  • Entry #773 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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