Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/jäwrä
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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 edit
Etymology edit
Probably a borrowing either from Proto-Balto-Slavic *jáuˀrāˀ (compare Lithuanian jáura (“marshland, bog”)), or from earlier Proto-Indo-European *yewHr-. Found only within the traditional Finno-Volgaic group. The word may have replaced *towe, reflected in the more Eastern languages.
Reconstruction edit
Rahkonen (2011) suggests that several hydronyms in central Russia along the upper Volga and beginning with the formants Яхр-, Ягр- or ending with -хра, -хро (e.g. Яхрома, Ягренево; see Ahlqvist (2006) for a survey) point to a more original form *jäkrä or *jäxrä, loaned already before the loss of the laryngeal from the Indo-European original. No explicit evidence for such a form is found in the direct descendants, however.
Noun edit
*jäwrä
- (Finno-Volgaic) lake
Synonyms edit
Descendants edit
- Mari:
- Proto-Mordvinic: *jäŕ-kə
- Proto-Samic: *jāvrē (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Finnic: *järvi, *jarvi (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- Ahlqvist, Arja. 2006. "Ancient Lakes in the Former Finno-Ugrian Territories of Central Russia: An Experimental Onomastic-Palaeogeographical Study". In: Slavica Helsingiensia 27: The Slavicization of the Russian North: Mechanisms and Chronology, pp. 11–49.
- Rahkonen, Pauli. 2011. "Finno-Ugrian hydronyms of the River Volkhov and Luga catchment areas". In Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 93, pp. 205–266.
- Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
External links edit
- Entry #1244 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.