Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/pala-

The Western forms meaning 'to burn' have been earlier compared with Proto-Ugric *paĺɜ- (“to freeze”) (whence e.g. Hungarian fagy), while the Eastern forms have been treated as variants of *pala (“bit”). The connections presented here follow Aikio (2016).

*pala-

1. to devour, eat
2. (Finno-Mordvinic) to burn

• Proto-Samoyedic: *pålä- (“to swallow”)
  • Nganasan: [script needed] (falea)
  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets: [script needed] (fari')
    • Tundra Enets: [script needed] (faři)
  • Nenets:
    • Forest Nenets: [script needed] (pari-)
    • Tundra Nenets: палесь (palyesʹ°)
  • Selkup:
    • Northern Selkup: [script needed] (poli̮-)
  • Kamassian: полдола (poldola)
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: fal (“to devour”)
  • Proto-Mansi: *puul-
    • Northern Mansi: пӯлункве (pūlunkwe, “to eat”)
  • Khanty: *puuɭïï-
    • Eastern Khanty: пуԓыта (pułyta, “to eat up”) (Far Eastern dialects)
• Mordvinic:
  • Erzya: паломс (paloms, “to burn”)
  • Moksha: паломс (paloms, “to burn”)
• Proto-Samic: *puolētēk (“to burn”) (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *paladak (“to burn”) (see there for further descendants)

• *pala (“bit”)

• Aikio, Ante. 2016. "The Finnic 'secondary e-stems' and Proto-Uralic vocalism". Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 95, pp. 25–66.

• Entry #695 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Entry #700 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.