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 edit

Alternative reconstructions edit

*wite
*wixte

Numeral edit

**Proto-Uralic cardinal numbers**
< 4	5	6 >
Cardinal : *witte

*witte

five
(Samoyedic) ten

Descendants edit

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

References edit

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 edit

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