Reconstruction:Proto-Mordvinic/ujəms

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 *uje-. Cognate with Proto-Finnic *uidak, Proto-Samic *vuojëtēk and Proto-Permic *ujni.

Verb

*ujəms

1. to swim

Descendants

• Erzya: уемс (ujems)
• Moksha: уемс (ujems)

References

• Entry #1088 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 173