Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/witte

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *wite
• *wixte

Numeral

Proto-Uralic cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : *witte

*witte

1. five
2. (Samoyedic) ten

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *wüt (“ten”) (see there for further descendants)
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: öt
  • Proto-Khanty:
    • Northern Khanty: вэт (wet)
  • Proto-Mansi: *ä̆t
    • Northern Mansi: ат (at)
• Proto-Permic: *vit (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mari: *wĭć (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *veťə (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Samic: *vittë (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *viici (see there for further descendants)

References

• Numeral Systems of the World's Languages
• Rédei, Károly, and Marianne Sz. Bakró-Nagy. Uralisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch. Vol. 1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1988. Print.
• Friis, J. A. Ordbog over det lappiske sprog. Christiania : Dybwad, 1887. Print.
• Halász, Ignácz. Pite lappmarki szótár és nyelvtan. Budapest : Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, 1896. Print.
• Itkonen, Toivo Immanuel. Koltan- ja kuolanlapin sanakirja. Helsinki : Suomalais-ugrilainen Seura, 1958. Print.
• Magga, Lajla Mattsson. Norsk-sydsamisk ordbok. Indre Billefjord : Iđut, 2009. Print.
• Korhonen, Mikko. Johdatus lapin kielen historiaan. Helsinki : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 1981. Print.
• Collinder, Björn. Fenno-Ugric Vocabulary : an Etymological Dictionary of the Uralic Languages. Hamburg : Helmut Buske Verlag, 1977. Print.

External links

• Entry #1154 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.