Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/ńäle-

Older references reconstruct *ńeele-, mainly based on Finnic.

*ńäle-

1. to swallow

• *ńälmä

• *ńale-

• Samoyedic
  • Nenets
    • Tundra Nenets: ня̆лӑмзь (ńāllāmz')
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: nyel
  • Khanty:
    • Northern, Eastern: нел (nel)
    • Southern: [script needed] (ńet-)
  • Mansi:
    • Northern: нялти (nâlti)
    • Eastern: [script needed] (ńöält-)
    • Southern: [script needed] (ńält-)
• Permic:
  • Komi:
    • Komi-Permyak: ньывавны (nʹyvavny)
    • Komi-Zyrian: ньылны (nʹylny)
  • Udmurt: ньылыны (nʹylyny)
• Mari:
  • Eastern Mari: нелаш (nelaš)
  • Western Mari: нелӓш (neläš)
• Mordvinic:
  • Erzya: нилемс (nilems)
  • Moksha: нилемс (nilems)
• Samic: *ńielëtēk; (*ńäl-kä >) *ńālkē (see there for further descendants)
• Finnic: *neeldäk; (*ńäl-kä >) *nälkä (see there for further descendants)

• 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.

• Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
• 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.

• Entry #619 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.