Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/wala

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

*wala

1. song ?; word ?

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *wålä
  • Forest Enets: [script needed] (bari)
  • Nganasan: бәлы (bəlɨ)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *valə
  • Erzya: вал (val)
  • Moksha: вал (val)
• Proto-Samic: *vuolē (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *vala (see there for further descendants)

References

• Aikio, Ante. 2016. "The Finnic 'secondary e-stems' and Proto-Uralic vocalism". Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 95, pp. 25–66.
• Entry #1684 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.