Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/ńale-

This Proto-Uralic 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.

Possibly a pre-Proto-Uralic doublet with either or both of *ńäle- (“to swallow”), *ńolke (“snot, slime”). Connection with Turkic *jālga- (“to lick”) (if from earlier *ńalga-) has occasionally been proposed.

Earlier often reconstructed as *ńola- or *ńole-, but Aikio (2016) argues in favor of original *a.

*ńale-

1. to lick

• Proto-Samoyedic: *ńåə- (see there for further descendants)
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: nyal
  • Mansi:
    • Northern Mansi: нёлант (nëlant)
  • Khanty:
    • Northern Khanty: ня̆лта (njălta)
• Proto-Permic: *ńulni (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mari: *nŭle- (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *nolams
  • Erzya: ноламс (nolams)
  • Moksha: ноламс (nolams)
• Proto-Samic: *ńoalōtēk (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *nooldak (see there for further descendants)

• Aikio, Ante. 2016. "The Finnic 'secondary e-stems' and Proto-Uralic vocalism". Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja 95, pp. 25–66.
• Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
• Sammallahti, Pekka (1988) “Historical Phonology of the Uralic Languages”, in Denis, Sinor, editor, The Uralic Languages: Description, History and Foreign Influences, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, pages 478-554

• Entry #633 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.