Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/somå

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

(Tundra Nenets) *səmå

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Uralic *ćoma. Compare Proto-Finnic *coma (“suitable; pleasant”).^[1]

Adjective

*somå

good

Reconstruction notes

Previously reconstructed as *səmå, but all descendants other than Tundra Nenets point to an original *o in the first syllable.

Descendants

⇒ Nganasan: сумугуо (lucky, fortunate)^[2]
Enets:^[3]
- ⇒ Forest Enets: сойза (sojza, sɔjza)
- ⇒ Tundra Enets: соэза (soeza, sɔeza)
Nenets:
- Forest Nenets: хома (xoma)^[4]
- Tundra Nenets: сӑва (săwa)^[5]
Proto-Selkup: *soma^[6]
- Northern Selkup: сома (soma)^[7]
- Southern Selkup:
  - Narym: хва (xwa), фа (fa), фā (fā)^[8]
  - Upper Ob: суо (suo)^[9]

References

^ Ante Aikio (2020) Uralic Etymological Dictionary (draft version of entries A–Ć; 1/17/2020)‎^[1], page 135
^ N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 157
^ Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky (2023) Forest and Tundra Enets‎^[2], →DOI, →ISBN, pages 801, 835
^ M. Y. Barmich, I. A. Vello (2002) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 138
^ N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 106
^ T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[3] (in Hungarian), page 31
^ 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 121 of 368
^ I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, pages 114, 117
^ G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 75 of 109

[1] Ante Aikio (2020) Uralic Etymological Dictionary (draft version of entries A–Ć; 1/17/2020)‎^[1], page 135

[2] N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 157

[3] Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky (2023) Forest and Tundra Enets‎^[2], →DOI, →ISBN, pages 801, 835

[4] M. Y. Barmich, I. A. Vello (2002) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий (лесной диалект), Просвещение, →ISBN, page 138

[5] N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 106

[6] T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár‎^[3] (in Hungarian), page 31

[7] 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 121 of 368

[8] I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, pages 114, 117

[9] G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 75 of 109

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