Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/śilä

This Proto-Uralic 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-Uralic

Noun

*śilä

1. fat

Descendants

• Samoyedic:
  • Nganasan: [script needed] (séla, “melted fat (from fish)”)
  • Selkup:
    • Northern Selkup: [script needed] (siilè, “fat”), [script needed] (siileng, “fat”)
  • Kamassian: [script needed] (śəl) [script needed] (śil, “fat, tallow”), (Koibal) [script needed] (syl, “fat”)
• Ugric:
  • Mansi:
    • Central Mansi: [script needed] (šilt, “bear fat”)
• Finnic:
  • Finnish: silava

Further reading

• Entry #963 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.