Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/ńimsä

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 This Proto-Samoyedic 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-Samoyedic

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *ńimśä. Although quite transparently a derivative of *ńim- (“to suck”), this derivation may have taken place already in Proto-Uralic.[1] Compare Finnish nisä and Northern Sami njižži.

Noun

*ńimsä

  1. breast, teat
  2. milk

Descendants

  • Proto-Selkup: *ńipsə

References

  1. ^ Ante Aikio (2002) “New and Old Samoyed Etymologies”, in Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen, pages 23-25
  2. ^ I. A. Korobeynikova (2020) Родное слово [Native word], Tomsk: Аграф-Пресс; Вайар, →ISBN, page 80 of 240
  3. ^ G. Yu. Kostyuchenko (2023) Тюйкуй Йэжиссан – Селькупский словарь для остяков Молчановского района [Tjuykuy Yezhissan – Selkup dictionary for Molchanovo district Selkup people], Molchanovo, page 52 of 109
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