Reconstruction:Proto-Mari/kŭwə

This Proto-Mari 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-Mari edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Uralic *kopa. Cognates include Proto-Finnic *kopa.

Noun edit

*kŭwə

  1. husk

Descendants edit

  • Eastern Mari: куво (kuvo)

References edit

  • Gábor Bereczki (2013) “kuwo”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Tscheremissischen (Mari) [Etymological dictionary of the Cheremiss language (Mari)], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN
  • Aikio, Ante. 2014. "On the reconstruction of Proto-Mari vocalism". In Journal of Language Relationship 11, pp. 125–157.