Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/jäwrä

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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

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Etymology

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Probably a borrowing either from Proto-Balto-Slavic *jáuˀrāˀ (compare Lithuanian jáura (marshland, bog)), or from earlier Proto-Indo-European *yewHr-. Found only within the traditional Finno-Volgaic group. The word may have replaced *towe, reflected in the more Eastern languages.

Reconstruction

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Rahkonen (2011) suggests that several hydronyms in central Russia along the upper Volga and beginning with the formants Яхр-, Ягр- or ending with -хра, -хро (e.g. Яхрома, Ягренево; see Ahlqvist (2006) for a survey) point to a more original form *jäkrä or *jäxrä, loaned already before the loss of the laryngeal from the Indo-European original. No explicit evidence for such a form is found in the direct descendants, however.

Noun

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*jäwrä

  1. (Finno-Volgaic) lake

Synonyms

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Descendants

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  • Mari:
    • Eastern Mari: ер (jer)
    • Western Mari: йӓр (jär)
  • Proto-Mordvinic: *jäŕ-kə
  • Proto-Samic: *jāvrē (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Finnic: *järvi, *jarvi (see there for further descendants)

References

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