Reconstruction:Proto-Mordvinic/keńəŕə

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 *küńä. According to Keresztes, via earlier *kińərə < *kińärä.

Noun

*keńəŕə

1. elbow

Descendants

• Erzya: кенере (keńeŕe)
• Moksha: кенерь (keńeŕ)

References

• Entry #311 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.