Reconstruction:Proto-Mordvinic/maksə

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 *mëksa. Cognates include Proto-Finnic *maksa and Proto-Samic *muoksē.

Noun

*maksə

1. liver

Descendants

• Erzya: максо (makso)
• Moksha: макса (maksa)

References

• Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎^[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26., page 83
• Entry #519 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.