Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/səjmä

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

  • (Nganasan) *säjmä
  • (Selkup) *səjä

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *śilmä.[1]

Noun

*səjmä[2]

  1. eye

Descendants

  • Nganasan: сеймы (sjejmɨ)[3]
  • Enets:[4]
    • Forest Enets: сэй (sej)
    • Tundra Enets: сэи (sei)
  • Nenets:
    • Forest Nenets: хӭм (xäm)[5]
    • Tundra Nenets: сэв (sew°)[6]
  • Proto-Selkup: *sajə[7] (see there for further descendants)
  • Kamassian: сима (sima)[8]
  • Mator: симе (sime)[10]

References

  1. ^ Ante Aikio (2020) Uralic Etymological Dictionary (draft version of entries A–Ć; 1/17/2020)[1], pages 129-130
  2. ^ Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
  3. ^ N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 148
  4. ^ Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky (2023) Forest and Tundra Enets[2], →DOI, →ISBN, page 829
  5. ^ M. Y. Barmich, I. A. Vello (2002) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 141
  6. ^ N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 119
  7. ^ T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár[3] (in Hungarian), page 31
  8. ^ Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik[4], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 59
  9. ^ T. Janurik (2021) Kojbál szótár: a publikált szójegyzékek egyesített szótára.[5] (in Hungarian), Székesfehérvár, pages 16, 103
  10. ^ E. Helimski (1997) N. Beáta, editor, Die Matorische Sprache[6] (in German), Szeged: JATE Finnugor Tanszék, →ISBN, page 340