Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/kålä

This Proto-Samoyedic 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-Samoyedic

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *kala.

Noun

*kålä

1. fish

Descendants

• Nganasan: колы (kolɨ)
• Enets:
  • Forest Enets: †kare, кари (kari)
  • Tundra Enets: †kaře, ка́ри (kári)
• Nenets:
  • Tundra Nenets: халя (xalya)
  • Forest Nenets: ка̄ӆя
• Proto-Selkup: *qwëlə (see there for further descendants)
• Kamassian: кхола (kʰola)
• Mator: келе (kele)

References

• Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
• T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[1] (in Hungarian), page 22
• Fortescue, Michael (2005) Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan dictionary (Trends in Linguistic Documentation; 23), Berlin – New York: de Gruyter, →ISBN.