Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/emä

This Proto-Uralic 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-Uralic

Noun

*emä

  1. mother
  2. woman

Descendants

  • Proto-Samoyedic: *ämä (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Samic: *eamē (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Finnic: *emä (see there for further descendants)

References

  • Häkkinen, Kaisa (2013). Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja. Helsinki: Sanoma Pro OY. →ISBN.

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
  • Entry #134 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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