Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/jëm

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

Alternative reconstructions

  • (Kamassian) *lëm

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ďëme.[1]

Noun

*jëm

  1. bird cherry

Descendants

  • Proto-Selkup: *ťe̮m
    • Northern Selkup: чәм (ćəm)[2]
    • Southern Selkup:
      • Narym: чев (čjew), чив (čiw)[3]
      • Upper Ob: теу (tjeu)[4]
  • Kamassian: лем (lem)[5]

References

  1. ^ Entry #122 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ O. A. Kazakevich, Ye. M. Budyanskaya (2010) Диалектологический словарь селькупского языка (северное наречие) [Dialectological dictionary of the Selkup language (Northern continuum)], Yekaterinburg: Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the RAS; Баско, →ISBN, page 159 of 368
  3. ^ I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 123, 124 of 240
  4. ^ G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 85 of 109
  5. ^ Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik[1], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 36