Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/kepä

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

Adjective

*kepä

1. light, of little weight

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *kejpä
  • Tundra Nenets: сӣбя (syībya)
• Proto-Ugric:
  • Hungarian: kevés (“little”)
• Proto-Finnic: *kepjä (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Samic: *keappē:
  • Western Samic:
    • Southern Sami: gyöhpehke / [Term?]
    • Ume Sami: giehpèdit / [Term?]
    • Pite Sami: kiehˈpat / [Term?] (kêhpês)
    • Lule Sami: gähppat / [Term?]
    • Northern Sami: geahppat / gehppes, geahppa, geahppadis
  • Eastern Samic:
    • Inari Sami: keppis / [Term?]
    • Skolt Sami: ǩieʹppeed / [Term?] (ǩeä´pˈpes)
    • Akkala Sami: кеаппесь (k’eapp’es’) / [Term?]
    • Kildin Sami: ке̄һпесь (kiehp’es’) / ке̄һпьсесь (kiehp’s’es’)
    • Ter Sami: [Term?] (kieχ̜̄p̜es̜) / [Term?]

Further reading

• Entry #284 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “kɛ̄ppē”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland