Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/üwä

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

*üwä

1. belt

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic:
  • Koibal: миня
  • Mator: мине
• Ugric
  • Hungarian: öv
• Proto-Finnic: *vöö (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Samic: *ëvē (see there for further descendants)

References

• Luobbal Sámmol Sámmol Ánte (Ante Aikio). 2012. "On Finnic long vowels, Samoyed vowel sequences, and Proto-Uralic *x". In: Hyytiäinen, Tiina; Jalava, Lotta; Saarikivi, Janne; Sandman, Erika (eds.), Per Urales ad Orientem. Iter polyphonicum multilinguae. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 264, pp. 227–250.

Further reading

• Entry #1150 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.