Reconstruction:Proto-Selkup/qwëlə

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 *kålä, from Proto-Uralic *kala.

Noun

*qwëlə

1. fish

Descendants

• Northern Selkup: ӄә̄лы
• Southern Selkup:
  • Narym: ӄвэл (qwel)
  • Upper Ob: куэл (kuel)

References

• Alatalo, Jarmo (2004) Sölkupisches Wörterbuch aus Aufzeichnungen von Kai Donner, U. T. Sirelius und Jarmo Alatalo, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, →ISBN, page 465
• T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[1] (in Hungarian), page 22