Reconstruction:Proto-Mari/jĭlmə

This Proto-Mari 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-Mari

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ńälmä. Cognates include Proto-Samic *ńālmē.

Noun

*jĭlmə

1. tongue
2. language

Descendants

• Eastern Mari: йылме (jylme)
• Western Mari: йӹлмӹ (jÿlmÿ)

References

• Gábor Bereczki (2013) “jə̂lme”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Tscheremissischen (Mari) [Etymological dictionary of the Cheremiss language (Mari)], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN
• Aikio, Ante. 2014. "On the reconstruction of Proto-Mari vocalism". In Journal of Language Relationship 11, pp. 125–157.