Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/polwe

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

*polwe

1. knee

Descendants

• Samoyedic
  • Nenets:
    • Tundra Nenets: пулы (puli)
  • Selkup:
    • >? Southern Selkup:
      • Narym: пула́й, пулхай (puláj, pulxaj)
      • Upper Ob: пулсэй (pulsej)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *pəl-
  • Erzya: кумажа (kumaža), куманжа (kumanža), пуляза (puľaza)
  • Moksha: пълманжа (pəlmanža)
• Proto-Samic: *puolvë (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *polvi (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Entry #791 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.