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Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/küńele

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

Etymology

Possibly related to *kuńa- (“to close eyes”), though the derivational relationship is obscure.

Noun

*küńele

  1. tear (of the eye)

Descendants
  • Samoyedic: *kəńələ
  • Ugric:
  • Permic:
    • Udmurt: синкыли (sinkyli)
  • Samic: *këńël (see there for further descendants)
  • Finnic: *küünel (see there for further descendants)

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