Reconstruction:Proto-Samoyedic/pi

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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

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Noun

*pi

  1. night

Descendants

  • Nganasan: хии (xii)
  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets: пи (pi)
    • Tundra Enets: пи (pi)
  • Nenets:
    • Tundra Nenets: пи (pyi)
    • Forest Nenets: пи (pyi)
  • Proto-Selkup: *pi (see there for further descendants)
  • Kamassian: пхи (pʰi)
  • Koibal: пё ()

References

  • Janhunen, Juha. 1977. Samojedischer Wortschatz: Gemeinsamojedische Etymologien ('Samoyedic Vocabulary: Common Samoyedic Etymologies'). Castreanianumin toimitteita 17. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. →ISBN.
  • T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár (in Hungarian), page 123