Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/täwe

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

*täwe

1. lung

Descendants

• Samoyedic:
  • Nenets
    • Tundra Nenets: тивакˮ (tiwāk)
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: tüdő
• Proto-Permic: *tu̇
  • Komi:
    • Komi-Zyrian: ты (ty)
  • Udmurt: ты (ty)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *tevə-
  • Erzya: тевеляв (teveľav)
  • Moksha: тевлав (tevlav)
• Proto-Finnic: *tävü (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Entry #1043 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.