Reconstruction:Proto-Mari/imə

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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

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *äjmä. Cognates include Proto-Finnic *äimä and Proto-Samic *ājmē.

Noun

*imə

  1. needle

Descendants

  • Eastern Mari: име (ime)
  • North-Western Mari: имӹ (imÿ)
  • Western Mari: им (im)

References

  • Gábor Bereczki (2013) “ime”, 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.