Reconstruction:Proto-Mari/kĭškə

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 *kije +‎ *-škə. Cognates include Proto-Finnic *küü.

Noun

*kĭškə

1. snake

Descendants

• Eastern Mari: кишке (kiške)
• Western Mari: кӹшкӹ (kÿškÿ)

References

• Gábor Bereczki (2013) “kiške”, 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.