Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/waśke

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

May be borrowed from (Pre-)Proto-Tocharian *wi̯äsā (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-.^[1]

Noun

*waśke

a metal; copper, iron?

Descendants

Proto-Samoyedic: *wäsä
- Proto-Selkup: *kwësə (see there for further descendants)
- Nenets
  - Tundra Nenets: еся (yesya)
Proto-Ugric: *waś
- Hungarian: vas (“iron”)
- Khanty:
  - Eastern Khanty: вӑӽ (wăḥ, “iron”) (Surgut)
Proto-Permic: *wäś (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Mordvinic: *uśkə
- Erzya: уське (uśke)
Proto-Samic: *veaškē (< *wäśkä)
Proto-Finnic: *vaski (“copper, bronze”) (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) “Metals”, in The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 241: “*hₐewes-”

[1] Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) “Metals”, in The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 241: “*hₐewes-”

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