Reconstruction:Proto-Mordvinic/vəjkä

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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

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ükte. According to Keresztes, via *viktə > *viɣtǝ > *vejťkǝ. Serebrennikov, for his part, suggests a derivation from Early Proto-Mordvinic *vej, suffixed with *-kə (diminutive suffix).

Numeral

*vəjkä

  1. one

Descendants

  • Erzya: вейке (vejke), ве (ve)
  • Moksha: фкя (fkä)

References

  • Entry #145 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., page 184