Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/kama

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

*kama

1. skin

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *kämə
  • Nenets
    • Tundra Nenets: сяв (syaw°)
  • Selkup:
    • Southern Selkup:
      • Narym: ка́мья (kám’ja, “tench; bittern; scale”)
      • Upper Ob: каам (kaam)
• Ugric
  • Hungarian: hámoz
• ⇒ Proto-Finnic: *kamara (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Entry #233 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.