Reconstruction:Proto-Mari/nĭl

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

**Proto-Mari cardinal numbers**
< 3	4	5 >
Cardinal : nĭl Nominal* : *nĭltə

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *neljä.

Numeral

*nĭl

four

Descendants

Eastern Mari: ныл (nyl)
Western Mari: нӹл (nÿl)

References

Aikio, Ante. 2014. "On the reconstruction of Proto-Mari vocalism". In Journal of Language Relationship 11, pp. 125–157.