Reconstruction:Proto-Mordvinic/višə

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 *wešnä. Cognate with Proto-Finnic *vehnä and Proto-Mari *wistə.

Noun

*višə

1. spelt

Descendants

• Erzya: виш (viš)
• Moksha: виш (viš)

References

• Entry #1707 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., page 190