Reconstruction:Proto-Permic/ku

This Proto-Permic 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-Permic

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *kopa. Cognates include Proto-Finnic *kopa and Proto-Mari *kŭwə.

Noun

*ku (stem *ku-)

1. skin
2. bark (of a tree)

Declension

Declension of *ku (stem: *ku-)
		singular	plural
nominative		*ku	*kujas
accusative	indefinite	*ku	*kujas
	definite	*kuäs	*kujasäs
instrumental		*kuän	*kujasän
caritive		*kutäk	*kujastäk
consecutive		*kula	*kujasla
genitive		*kulän	*kujaslän
ablative		*kuliś	*kujasliś
dative		*kuli	*kujasli
inessive		*kuin	*kujasin
elative		*kuiś	*kujasiś
illative		*kuä	*kujasä
egressive		*kuśań	*kujasśań
approximative		*kulań	*kujaslań
terminative		*kuäʒ́	*kujasäʒ́
translative		*kuti	*kujasti

Descendants

• Komi:
  • Komi-Permyak: ку (ku)
  • Komi-Zyrian: ку (ku)
• Udmurt: ку (ku)

References

• Lytkin, V. I., Gulyaev, E. S., editors (1970), “ку”, in Краткий этимологический словарь коми языка [Brief Etymological Dictionary of the Komi Language]‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka
• Aikio, Ante (2020) “Studies in Uralic Etymology V: Permic Etymologies”, in Linguistica Uralica‎^[2], volume 57, number 3, Estonian Academy Publishers, →ISSN, page 165 of 161–179