Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/jälä

This Proto-Samoyedic 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-Samoyedic

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *jelä.

Noun

*jälä

1. sun
2. day
3. light

Descendants

• Nganasan: дялы (djalɨ)
• Enets:
  • Forest Enets: дери (deri)
  • Tundra Enets: дерэ (djere)
• Nenets:
  • Tundra Nenets: яля (yalya)
  • Forest Nenets: дяԓя (dyałya)
• Proto-Selkup: *ťēlə (see there for further descendants)
• Kamassian: джала (ʒ́ala)
• Koibal: джяла

References

• Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
• T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[1] (in Hungarian), page 20