Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/kepä

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

Adjective

*kepä

  1. light, of little weight

Descendants

  • >? Proto-Samoyedic: *käjpä (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Ugric:
    • Hungarian: kevés (“little”)
  • Proto-Finnic: *kepjä (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Samic: *keappē:
    • Western Samic:
      • Southern Sami: gyöhpehke / [Term?]
      • Ume Sami: giehpèdit / [Term?]
      • Pite Sami: kiehˈpat / [Term?] (kêhpês)
      • Lule Sami: gähppat / [Term?]
      • Northern Sami: geahppat / gehppes, geahppa, geahppadis
    • Eastern Samic:
      • Inari Sami: keppis / [Term?]
      • Skolt Sami: ǩieʹppeed / [Term?] (ǩeä´pˈpes)
      • Akkala Sami: кеаппесь (k’eapp’es’) / [Term?]
      • Kildin Sami: ке̄һпесь (kiehpjes’) / ке̄һпьсесь (kiehp’sjes’)
      • Ter Sami: [script needed] (kieχ̜̄p̜es̜) / [Term?]

Further reading

  • Entry #284 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), “kɛ̄ppē”, in Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
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