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Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/waśke

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

Noun

*waśke

  1. a metal; copper, iron?

Descendants
  • Samoyedic
    • Nenets
      • Tundra Nenets: еся (jēśśe)
  • Ugric:
    • Hungarian: vas (“iron”)
  • Finnic: *vaski (“copper, bronze”)

Further reading
  • Entry #1123 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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