Reconstruction:Proto-Mari/šäškə

This Proto-Mari entry contains reconstructed terms 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-Mari

Etymology

About the origin of the word exist two theories:

Borrowed from Turkic, compare Tatar чәшке (çäşke) and Bashkir шәшке (şəşke).
Borrowed from Baltic, compare Lithuanian šeškas (“polecat”) and Latvian sesks (“ferret”).

Noun

*šäškə

mink

Descendants

Eastern Mari: шашке (šaške)
Western Mari: шӓшкӹ (šäškÿ)

References

Aikio, Ante. 2014. "On the reconstruction of Proto-Mari vocalism". In Journal of Language Relationship 11, pp. 125–157.
Jakob, A. (2023) “Loanwords into other Uralic languages”, in A history of East Baltic through language contact‎^[1], pages 237-238