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Reconstruction:Proto-Mari/kŭm

This Proto-Mari 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-Mari
Proto-Mari cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : *kŭm
    Nominal : *kŭmtə

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *kolme. Cognates include Proto-Finnic *kolmi and Proto-Samic *kolmë.

Numeral

*kŭm

  1. three

Descendants
  • Eastern Mari: кум (kum)
  • Western Mari: кым (kym)

References
  • Gábor Bereczki (2013) “kum”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Tscheremissischen (Mari) [Etymological dictionary of the Cheremiss language (Mari)], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN
  • Aikio, Ante. 2014. "On the reconstruction of Proto-Mari vocalism". In Journal of Language Relationship 11, pp. 125–157.
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