Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/tättə

This Proto-Samoyedic 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-Samoyedic

Etymology

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Numeral

*tättə

1. four

Descendants

• Nganasan: четә (četə)
• Enets:
  • Forest Enets: тԑт (tət)
• Nenets:
  • Forest Nenets: чеʼт (ćyeht)
  • Tundra Nenets: тет (tyet°)
• Selkup:
  • Northern Selkup: тетты (tjettɨ)
  • Southern Selkup:
    • Narym Selkup: тэт (tet)
    • Chulym Selkup: тиэтт
• Kamassian: тхеʼдә (tʰeʔdə)
• Koibal: таде, tätde
• Mator: тяйде, дейте
• ⇒ Mator: тчюньдійте (“fourteen”)

References

• Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
• Tapani Salminen (2012) “Traces of Proto-Samoyed vowel contrasts in Nenets”, in Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia, Helsinki