Reconstruction:Proto-Mordvinic/kućkan

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 *kočka. Cognate with Proto-Finnic *kocka, Proto-Samic *koackēmē and Proto-Mari *kučkəž.

Noun

*kućkan

1. eagle

Descendants

• Erzya: куцькан (kućkan)
• Moksha: куцькан (kućkan)

References

• Entry #1322 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.