Reconstruction:Proto-Mordvinic/käď

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 *käte. According to Keresztes, via earlier *käďə < *kädə.

Noun

*käď

1. hand

Descendants

• Erzya: кедь (keď)
• Moksha: кядь (käď)

References

• Entry #271 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.