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Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/lome

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

One of the words showing raising of *o to *u in the Finno-Permic languages. Has been in various sources also reconstructed as lume or lumi.

Noun

*lome

  1. snow

Synonyms

Descendants
  • Samoyedic: *jom (“to snow”)
    • Nganasan: дӱмудя (ďümuďa)
    • Nenets:
      • Forest Nenets: [Term?]
      • Tundra Nenets: ёмзесь (jomćeś)
    • Selkup: [script needed] (čom-)
  • Ugric:
    • ? Hungarian: (dialectal) lom (“rime”)
  • Permic:
    • Komi:
      • Komi-Permyak: вым (vym)
      • Komi-Zyrian: лым (lym)
    • Udmurt: лымы (lymy)
  • Mari:
  • Mordvinic:
  • Samic: *lomë (see there for further descendants)
  • Finnic: *lumi (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 #496 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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