Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/ńimsä

This Proto-Samoyedic 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-Samoyedic

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ńimśä. Although quite transparently a derivative of *ńim- (“to suck”), this derivation may have taken place already in Proto-Uralic.^[1] Compare Finnish nisä and Northern Sami njižži.

Noun

*ńimsä

breast, teat
milk

Descendants

Proto-Selkup: *ńipsə
- Southern Selkup:
  - Narym: неб (njeb)^[2]
  - Upper Ob: непс (njeps)^[3]

References

^ Ante Aikio (2002) “New and Old Samoyed Etymologies”, in Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen, pages 23-25
^ I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 80 of 240
^ G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 52 of 109

[1] Ante Aikio (2002) “New and Old Samoyed Etymologies”, in Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen, pages 23-25

[2] I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 80 of 240

[3] G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 52 of 109

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