Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/wåtwə

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

Noun

*wåtwə

1. bed, sleeping place

Descendants

• Nganasan: бәбә (bəbə)
• Enets:
  • Forest Enets: баа (baa)
  • Tundra Enets: баˮа (baˮa)
• Nenets:
  • Tundra Nenets: ваˮӑв (waqăw°)
  • Forest Nenets: ваˮав (waqaw)
• Proto-Selkup: *wåtpə̑ (see there for further descendants)
• Kamassian: бапху (bapʰu)

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 36