Reconstruction:Proto-Mordvinic/śeľmə

This Proto-Mordvinic 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-Mordvinic

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *śilmä. According to Keresztes, via earlier *śiľmə.

Noun

*śeľmə

1. eye

Descendants

• Erzya: сельме (śeľme)
• Moksha: сельме (śeľme)

References

• Entry #964 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎^[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.