Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/perä

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

Noun

*perä (Finno-Ugric)

1. hindquarters, back part of something

Descendants

• Proto-Khanty:
  • Eastern Khanty: пӛртӓх (pjərtäh) (Vakh)
• Proto-Permic: *bär (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *pəŕä~*piŕä
  • Erzya: пря (pŕa)
  • Moksha: [script needed] (pŕä)
• Proto-Finnic: *perä (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Entry #747 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.