Reconstruction:Proto-Mordvinic/kizə

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-Finno-Permic *kesä (“summer”) (possibly a loanword from Indo-European; see it for more). Cognate with Proto-Finnic *kesä, Proto-Samic *keasē.

Noun

*kizə

1. summer

Descendants

• Erzya: кизэ (kize)
• Moksha: киза (kiza)

References

• Entry #1304 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.