Reconstruction:Proto-Mordvinic/meď

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 *mete, ultimately borrowed from Proto-Tocharian *ḿətə, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu. Cognate with Proto-Finnic *meci, Proto-Mari *mü and Proto-Permic *må.

Noun

*meď

1. honey

Descendants

• Erzya: медь (meď)
• Moksha: медь (meď)

References

• Entry #539 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., page 87