Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/pi

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

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Noun

*pi

1. night

Descendants

• Nganasan: хии (xii)
• Enets:
  • Forest Enets: пи (pi)
  • Tundra Enets: пи (pi)
• Nenets:
  • Tundra Nenets: пи (pyi)
  • Forest Nenets: пи (pyi)
• Proto-Selkup: *pi (see there for further descendants)
• Kamassian: пхи (pʰi)
• Koibal: пё (pö)

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 123