Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/süle

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

Reconstruction

Most descendants have gained the additional meaning "fathom", which is however likely to be a later development.

Noun

*süle

1. bosom, lap, open arms

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *tij, *tijmä
  • Nganasan: [script needed] (ťīmi)
  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets: [script needed] (ťībe)
    • Tundra Enets: [script needed] (ťīe)
  • Nenets:
    • Forest Nenets: тибя (ťib́a)
    • Tundra Nenets:
  • Selkup:
    • Southern Selkup:
      • Upper Ob: тии (tii)
  • Mator: [script needed] (тимя)
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: öl
  • Mansi:
    • Eastern Mansi: [script needed] (täl)
    • Northern Mansi: тал (tal)
    • Southern Mansi: [script needed] (täl)
    • Western Mansi: [script needed] (täl)
  • Khanty:
    • Eastern Khanty: лӫл (lø̈l)
    • Northern Khanty: лӑл (lăl)
    • Southern Khanty: [script needed] (tĕt)
• Proto-Permic: *su̇l (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mari: *sü̆lə (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *seľ
  • Erzya: сэль (seľ)
  • Moksha: сель (śeľ)
• Proto-Samic: *sëlë (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *süli (see there for further descendants)

References

• Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
• Sammallahti, Pekka (1988) “Historical Phonology of the Uralic Languages”, in Denis, Sinor, editor, The Uralic Languages: Description, History and Foreign Influences, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, pages 478-554

External links

• Entry #900 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.