Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/lome

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

Reconstruction

One of the words showing raising of *o to *u in the Finno-Permic languages. Has been in various sources also reconstructed as lume or lumi.

Noun

*lome

1. snow

Synonyms

• *kume

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *jom (“to snow”)
  • Nganasan: дӱмудя (ďümuďa)
  • Nenets:
    • Forest Nenets:
    • Tundra Nenets: ёмзесь (jomćeś)
  • Selkup:
    • Southern Selkup:
      • Narym: чо́мгу
• Ugric:
  • ? Hungarian: (dialectal) lom (“rime”)
• Proto-Permic: *lu̇m (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mari: *lŭm (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *lovə (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Samic: *lomë (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *lumi (see there for further descendants)

References

• Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
• Sammallahti, Pekka (1988) “Historical Phonology of the Uralic Languages”, in Denis, Sinor, editor, The Uralic Languages: Description, History and Foreign Influences, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, pages 478-554

External links

• Entry #496 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.