Reconstruction:Proto-Permic/äzwäś

This Proto-Permic 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-Permic

Etymology

From *äz +‎ *wäś (“shiny metal”). The first component is uncertain, but might have meant something like "colourful" or "white".

Noun

*äzwäś (stem *äzwäś-)

1. silver

Declension

Declension of *äzwäś (stem: *äzwäś-)
		singular	plural
nominative		*äzwäś	*äzwäśjas
accusative	indefinite	*äzwäś	*äzwäśjas
	definite	*äzwäśäs	*äzwäśjasäs
instrumental		*äzwäśän	*äzwäśjasän
caritive		*äzwäśtäk	*äzwäśjastäk
consecutive		*äzwäśla	*äzwäśjasla
genitive		*äzwäślän	*äzwäśjaslän
ablative		*äzwäśliś	*äzwäśjasliś
dative		*äzwäśli	*äzwäśjasli
inessive		*äzwäśin	*äzwäśjasin
elative		*äzwäśiś	*äzwäśjasiś
illative		*äzwäśä	*äzwäśjasä
egressive		*äzwäśśań	*äzwäśjasśań
approximative		*äzwäślań	*äzwäśjaslań
terminative		*äzwäśäʒ́	*äzwäśjasäʒ́
translative		*äzwäśti	*äzwäśjasti

Descendants

• Komi:
  • Komi-Permyak: (dialectal) эзы́сь (ezýś)
  • Komi-Zyrian: эзысь (ezyś)
• Udmurt: азвесь (azveś)
• → Hungarian: ezüst
• →? Old Ossetic: *æzvestæ
  • Ossetian: ӕвзист (ævzist)

References

• Lytkin, V. I., Gulyaev, E. S., editors (1970), “эзысь”, in Краткий этимологический словарь коми языка [Brief Etymological Dictionary of the Komi Language]‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka
• V. I. Alatyrev, editor (1988), “азвесь”, in Этимологический словарь удмуртского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Udmurt Language]‎^[2] (in Russian), Izhevsk: НИИ при СМ