Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/wålä

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

  • *wålɜ

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *wala.[1]

Noun

*wålä[2]

  1. song
  2. legend

Descendants

  • Nganasan: бәлы (bəlɨ)[3]
  • Enets:

References

  1. ^ Entry #1684 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ Ante Aikio (2006) “New and Old Samoyed Etymologies, Part 2”, in Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen, pages 26-27
  3. ^ N. T. Kosterkina, A. C. Momde, T. Y. Zhdanova (2001) Словарь нганасанско-русский и русско-нганасанский, St. Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 30
  4. ^ P. N. Sorokina (2001) C. D. Bolina, editor, Словарь Энецко-русский и Русско-Энецкий [Forest Enets-Russian and Russian-Forest Enets dictionary]‎[1], Saint-Petersburg, page 17