Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/towe

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

Reconstruction

Sammallahti (1988) reconstructs *toxe, supposing that only *x is word-medially lost in Samoyedic. According to Aikio (2002: 35, 49), also the semivowels *j, *w were lost before 2nd-syllable *e (compare e.g. *sewe-, *śowe), which would allow the reconstruction *towe.

Noun

*towe

1. lake, pond

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *to
  • Nganasan: турку (turku)
  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets: то
    • Tundra Enets: [script needed] (to)
  • Nenets:
    • Forest Nenets: [script needed] (tō)
    • Tundra Nenets: то (tō)
  • Selkup:
    • Northern Selkup: то (to)
    • Southern Selkup:
      • Narym: то̄ (tō)
      • Upper Ob: то (to)
  • Kamassian: тху (tʰu)
  • Mator: тоа
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: tó
  • Mansi:
    • Southern Mansi: то̄ (tō)
  • Khanty: *toɣ
    • Eastern Khanty: төг (tøg)
    • Northern Khanty: тув (tuw)
• Proto-Permic: *tu̇
  • Komi:
    • Komi-Permyak: ты (ty)
    • Komi-Zyrian: ты (ty)
  • Udmurt: ты (ty)

References

• Aikio, Ante. 2002. "New and Old Samoyed Etymologies". Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 57, pp. 9–57.
• Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
• Sammallahti, Pekka (1988) “Historical Phonology of the Uralic Languages”, in Denis, Sinor, editor, The Uralic Languages: Description, History and Foreign Influences, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, pages 478-554

External links

• Entry #1070 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.