Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/pälkä

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

Etymology

Sometimes compared with Indo-European words (i.e. Latin pollex, Proto-Slavic *palьcь).

Noun

*pälkä

1. thumb

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic:
  • Nenets
    • Tundra Nenets: пикця (pyikcya)
• Proto-Permic: *pɔ̈l (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *päľkə
  • Erzya: пелька (peľka)
  • Moksha: пяльхкя (päľhkä)
• Proto-Samic: *pealkē (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *peikälo (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Entry #723 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.