Reconstruction:Proto-Mordvinic/keľ

This Proto-Mordvinic 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-Mordvinic

Alternative forms

*käľ

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *käle. Cognate with Proto-Finnic *keeli, Proto-Samic *kielë, Proto-Permic *ku̇l.

Noun

*keľ

tongue

Descendants

Erzya: кель (keľ)
Moksha: кяль (käľ)

References

Entry #280 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎, Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.

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