Reconstruction:Proto-Selkup/kwësə

This Proto-Selkup 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-Selkup

Etymology

From Proto-Samoyedic *wäsä or *wesä, from Proto-Uralic *waśke.

Noun

*kwësə

1. iron

Descendants

• Northern Selkup: кә̄сы
• Southern Selkup:
  • Narym: квэ̄ (kwē), квэ (kwe), кве (kwje)
  • Upper Ob: куэс (kues)

References

• T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[1] (in Hungarian), page 36