Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/ükteksä

This Proto-Uralic 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-Uralic

Alternative reconstructions

• *ükteksän

Etymology

From *ükte (“one”) with a suffix of unknown derivation and origin. The Finno-Mordvinic term has sometimes been connected with Eastern Mari индеше (indeše), but this is likely a parallel formation and not related directly to the term. See *kakteksa for more details.

Numeral

Proto-Uralic cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : *ükteksä

*ükteksä

1. (Finno-Mordvinic) nine

Descendants

• Proto-Mordvinic: *vejksə
  • Erzya: вейксэ (vejkse)
  • Moksha: вейхкса (vejhksa)
• Proto-Finnic: *ükteksä (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Samic: *ëkcē (or borrowed from Finnic) (see there for further descendants)

References

More references under *kakteksa.

• Napolsikh, Vladimir. Uralic Numerals is the evolution of numeral system reconstructable? (2003).
• Aikio, Ante. Uralic Etymological Dictionary (draft, 2020).
• Kallio, Petri (2020–) “*ükteksän”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto‎^[1] (in Finnish)

External links

• Entry #1672 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.