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Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/śečä

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

Some sources (e.g. Sammallahti 1988) reconstruct *čečä and a dissimilation *č-č > *ć-č for Finnic, Samic and Komi; others (UEW) assume instead a widespread assimilation *ś-č > *č-č or *š-č. Compare *śača-.

Noun

*śečä

  1. uncle

Coordinate terms

Descendants
  • Samoyedic: *čečä
    • Nganasan: тытыда
    • Nenets:
      • Tundra Nenets: тидя
    • Selkup: [script needed] (če̮džəga)
  • Ugric:
    • Mansi:
      • Northern: сасиг (sasig)
      • Eastern, Western: [script needed] (šäš)
  • Permic:
    • Komi:
    • Udmurt: ӵуж (čuž)
  • Mari:
    • Eastern Mari: чӹчӹ (čÿčÿ)
    • Western Mari: чӱчӧ (čüčö)
  • Mordvinic:
    • Erzya: чиче (čiče), шиче (šiče)
    • Moksha: щене (ščene), щятя (ščjatja, “maternal grandfather”), щава (ščava, “maternal grandmother”)
  • Samic: *čeacē (“paternal uncle”)
  • Finnic: *setä (“paternal uncle”)

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