Reconstruction:Proto-Selkup/watte

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 *uət, from Proto-Uralic *utka.

Noun

*watte

1. track
2. way

Descendants

• Northern Selkup: вәтты
• Southern Selkup:
  • Narym: ватт (watt)
  • Upper Ob: уатт (uatt)

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 18