Reconstruction:Proto-Permic/bi

This Proto-Permic 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-Permic

Reconstruction notes

Reconstructed based on the assumption that this term goes back to some Uralic root or other.

Etymology

Unclear. Proposed theories include:

From Proto-Uralic *päjwä (“day”), thus related to Proto-Finnic *päivä and Proto-Samic *peajvē.
From Proto-Uralic *päje (“fire”), related to Eastern Khanty пай (paj, “thunder”) and Northern Sami baján (“thunder”).
Somehow related to *püni (“to cook”).

Noun

*bi (stem *bi-)

fire
Synonym: *tu̇l

Declension

Declension of bi (stem: bi-)
		singular	plural
nominative		*bi	*bijas
accusative	indefinite	*bi	*bijas
accusative	definite	*biäs	*bijasäs
instrumental		*biän	*bijasän
caritive		*bitäk	*bijastäk
consecutive		*bila	*bijasla
genitive		*bilän	*bijaslän
ablative		*biliś	*bijasliś
dative		*bili	*bijasli
inessive		*biin	*bijasin
elative		*biiś	*bijasiś
illative		*biä	*bijasä
egressive		*biśań	*bijasśań
approximative		*bilań	*bijaslań
terminative		*biäʒ́	*bijasäʒ́
translative		*biti	*bijasti

Descendants

Komi:
- Komi-Permyak: би (bi)
- Komi-Yazva: би (bi)
- Komi-Zyrian: би (bi)
- Old Komi: 𐍑𐍙̈ (bi)

References

Lytkin, V. I., Gulyaev, E. S., editors (1970), “би”, in Краткий этимологический словарь коми языка [Brief Etymological Dictionary of the Komi Language]‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka