Reconstruction:Proto-Permic/ku̇kjamis

This Proto-Permic 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.

From *ku̇kja (“two”) +‎ *-mis (“lacking from ten”). The origin of the suffix *-ja is debated:

• Serebrennikov (1963) proposes that *-ja is an ending of a lost locative case.^[1]
• According to Lytkin (1970), possibly a leftover of a dual suffix, seen also in the plural suffix *-jas.^[2]
• Honti (1993) claims that *-ja is identical to the denominal adjectivising suffix *-a, with an irregular iotation which prevented it from labialising in Udmurt.^[3]
• Bartens (2000) states that it may be the adverbial case ending (preserved in Udmurt as -я (-ja))^[4]

Equivalent to Proto-Finnic *kaktëksa (“eight”), itself also derived from *kakci (“two”).

*ku̇kjamis

1. eight

• Komi:
  • Komi-Permyak: кыкья́мыс (kykʹjámys)
  • Komi-Zyrian: кӧкъямыс (kökjamys)
• Udmurt: кыкъямыс (kykjamys) (obsolete)

From the syncoptic *kjamis:

• Komi:
  • Komi-Yazva: я́мөс (jámås), я́ма (jáma) (obsolete)
• Udmurt: тямыс (ťamys), (obsolete) киямыс (kijamys)
  • Beserman: тямөс (ťamås)

• Lytkin, V. I., Gulyaev, E. S., editors (1970), “кӧкъямыс”, in Краткий этимологический словарь коми языка [Brief Etymological Dictionary of the Komi Language]‎ (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka