Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/sente-

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

Etymology

Koivulehto proposed that the word is an old loan from Proto-Iranian *zan- (“to beget”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-,^[1] but Aikio rejects the etymology on morphological, phonological and distribution grounds.^[2]

Verb

*sente-

to multiply, be born?

Derived terms

*sentew-

Descendants

Ugric:
- >? Hungarian: ellik

References

^ Koivulehto, Jorma. The earliest contacts between Indo-European and Uralic speakers in the light of lexical loans, pp. 254–255. Early Contacts between Uralic and Indo-European: Linguistic and Archaeological Considerations (SUST 242), pp. 235–264, Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, Helsinki, 2007.
^ Aikio, Ante (2020) “Studies in Uralic Etymology V: Permic Etymologies”, in Linguistica Uralica‎^[1], volume 57, number 3, Estonian Academy Publishers, →ISSN, page 171 of 161–179: “PU *senti-w- > […] PPerm (PS) *sud- / (MZh) *sȯd-”