Reconstruction:Proto-Mordvinic/pizə

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 *pesä. Cognate with Proto-Finnic *pesä, Proto-Samic *peasē, Proto-Mari *pĭzakš and Proto-Permic *pɔz.

Noun

*pizə

1. nest

Descendants

• Erzya: пизэ (pize)
• Moksha: пиза (piza)

References

• Entry #753 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 114