Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/mërja
Proto-Uralic
editReconstruction
edit*ë can be reconstructed on the basis of Mari (Aikio 2014), though no confirmation from more eastern languages is available. Rédei (1988) mentions uncertain reflexes from the Ob-Ugric languages, possibly better derived from *mura (whence Proto-Finnic *mura-).
Noun
edit*mërja
Descendants
edit- Mari: *mür
- Proto-Mordvinic: *maŕ (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Samic: *muorjē (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Finnic: *marja (see there for further descendants)
References
edit- Aikio, Ante. 2014. "On the reconstruction of Proto-Mari vocalism". In Journal of Language Relationship 11, pp. 125–157.
- Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
External links
edit- Entry #521 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.