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Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/ënɜppe
Proto-Uralic
Etymology
Likely originally a compound with *ëppe (“father-in-law”) as the second member. The first member is not known as an independent word, but may be also reflected in Proto-Samic *vuonēm (“mother-in-law”) (perhaps from *ënɜ + *emä). In such a case, the word may originally have been a dvandva compound (mother-in-law + father-in-law to mean "In-law" in general).
Descendants
Further reading
- Entry #14 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
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