Reconstruction:Proto-Mordvinic/alə

This Proto-Mordvinic 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-Mordvinic

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ëla. Cognate with Proto-Finnic *ala, Proto-Samic *vuolē, Proto-Permic *ul.

The adverb and postposition likely contain the local case suffix *-na and derive from the intermediate form *ala-na; compare Finnish alla.

Adjective

*alə

1. lower
2. under

Descendants

• Erzya: ало (alo)
• Moksha: ала (ala)

References

• Entry #7 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎^[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.