Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/täjwə

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

  • (Older reconstruction) *tejwə, *cejwə
  • *cäjwə

Etymology

Uncertain. Has been compared with Proto-Samic *čoavjē[1], but the correspondence is irregular.

Noun

*täjwə[2]

  1. stomach

Descendants

  • Nganasan: чайбә (čajbə)[3]
  • Nenets:
  • Kamassian: шӱйә (šüjə)[5]

References

  1. ^ Entry #71 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. ^ N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 210
  4. ^ N. M. Tereschenko (2005) Словарь ненецко-русский и русско-ненецкий, 3rd edition, Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 137
  5. ^ Donner, Kai R. (1944) Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik[1], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 66