Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/ëmta-

This Proto-Uralic entry contains reconstructed words 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 reflexes are ambiguous between *ëmta- and *amta-. Sammallahti (1988) opts for the former reconstruction, based on Komi /u/ (contrast e.g. *aja-). According to a proposal by Reshetnikov & Zhivlov (2011), even this may be however derivable from *a.

Verb

*ëmta-

to give

Synonyms

*mexe-

Descendants

Ugric:
- Hungarian: ad
Permic:
- Komi:
  - Komi-Zyrian: удны (udny, “to give to drink, to feed”)
- Udmurt: удны (udny, “to give to drink, to feed”)
Mordvinic:
- Erzya: андомс (andoms, “to feed”)
- Moksha: андомс (andoms, “to feed”)
Samic: *vuomtētēk (“to sell”) (see there for further descendants)
Finnic: *antadak (see there for further descendants)

References

Sammallahti, Pekka. 1988. "Historical phonology of the Uralic languages, with special reference to Samoyed, Ugric and Permic". In Sinor, Denis (ed.), The Uralic Languages: Description, History and Foreign Influences, pp. 478–554. Leiden: Brill. →ISBN.
Reshetnikov, Kirill; Zhivlov, Mikhail. 2011. "Studies in Uralic vocalism II: Reflexes of Proto-Uralic *a in Samoyed, Mansi and Permic". In Journal of Language Relationship 5, pp. 96–109.

External links

Entry #11 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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