Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/kålmɜ

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 *kalma (“death”), from Proto-Uralic *kale- (“to die”).[1] The preservation of *-l- suggests a preform *kale-ma.

Noun

*kålmɜ[2]

  1. corpse

Descendants

  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets: камер (kamer)[3]
  • Nenets:
    • Forest Nenets: каԓьмяԓ (kałʹmyał)[4]
    • Tundra Nenets: хальмер (xalʹmyer°)[5]
  • Kamassian: кхолмә (kʰolmə, “ghost”)[6]

References

  1. ^ Entry #229 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
  3. ^ https://siberianlanguages.surrey.ac.uk/resource/forest-enets-lexical-words/?q=kamer&offset=1
  4. ^ M. Y. Barmich, I. A. Vello (2002) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 41
  5. ^ N. M. Tereschenko (1965) Ненецко-русский словарь, Moscow: Советская Энциклопедия, page 632
  6. ^ Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik‎[1], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 31
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