Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/pirkä

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 *pirə-, from Proto-Uralic *pide.

Adjective

*pirkä

1. tall, high

Descendants

• Nganasan: хирәгәә (xirəgəə)
• Enets:
  • Forest Enets: пизԑ, пи́зи
• Nenets:
  • Forest Nenets: пиԓьша (pyiłʹša)
  • Tundra Nenets: пирця (pyircya)
• Proto-Selkup: *pirkǝ
  • Northern Selkup: пиркый (pirkyj), пирӄы (pirqy), пирӄыль (pirqylj)
  • Southern Selkup:
    • Narym Selkup: пырӷ (pyrģ)
    • Chulym Selkup: піэрг
• Kamassian: пхӱрже (pʰürže)
• Koibal: прицэ
• Mator: пыргэ

References

• Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.