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Reconstruction:Proto-Permic/äzwäś

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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

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Etymology

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

Noun

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*äzwäś (stem *äzwäś-)

  1. silver

Declension

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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

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

References

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  • 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