Reconstruction:Proto-Mordvinic/ťäľə

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 *tälwä. Cognates include Proto-Finnic *talvi, Proto-Samic *tālvē and Proto-Permic *tɔ̇l.

Noun

*ťäľə

1. winter

Descendants

• Erzya: теле (ťeľe)
• Moksha: тяла (ťala)

References

• Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎^[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26., page 166
• Entry #1037 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.