Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/pä

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 *puwe.

Noun

*pä

1. tree

Descendants

• Nganasan: хуаа (xuaa)
• Enets:
  • Forest Enets: пе (pye)
  • Tundra Enets: пя (pya)
• Nenets:
  • Tundra Nenets: пя (pya)
  • Forest Nenets: пя (pya)
• Proto-Selkup: *pō (see there for further descendants)
• Kamassian: пха (pʰa)
• Koibal: па

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 29