Reconstruction:Proto-Mordvinic/valdə

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 *wëlketa. Cognate with Proto-Finnic *valkëda, Proto-Samic *vielkëtē and Proto-Mari *wålɣədə.

Adjective

*valdə

1. light

Descendants

• Erzya: валдо (valdo)
• Moksha: валда (valda)

References

• Entry #1111 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.