Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/adema

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

Etymology

A derivative of *ade- (“to sleep”) +‎ *-ma. Sammallahti (1988) reconstructs a separate root *alma. Aikio (2020) reconstructs a form *adma. Both Sammallahti and Aikio exclude the Mordvinic descendants.

Noun

*adema

1. sleep
2. dream

Descendants

• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: álom
  • Proto-Mansi: *ūlmǝ
  • Khanty:
    • Northern Khanty: аләм (aləm, “sleep”), уләм (uləm, “dream”)
• Proto-Permic: *on (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mari: *omə (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *udǝmǝ
  • Erzya: удома (udoma)
  • Moksha: удома (udoma)

References

• 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
• Aikio, Ante (2020) Uralic Etymological Dictionary (draft version of entries A-Ć)‎^[1], page 6

External links

• Entry #661 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.