Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/käďwä

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.

Proto-Uralic

Noun

*käďwä

1. female animal (? stoat, ermine)

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *käjwä, *käjmä
  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets:
    • Tundra Enets: (see)
  • Nenets:
    • Forest Nenets: (śiḿḿeʰku)
    • Tundra Nenets: сибяко (syibyako)
  • Selkup:
    • Northern Selkup: (šǖmä)
  • Kamassian: (šʉjmʉ)
  • Mator: (kejbe, “mare”)
• Ugric:
  • Old Hungarian: helgy
    • Hungarian: hölgy
  • Proto-Mansi: *kääľ
    • Mansi:
      • Northern Mansi: ка̄ль (kālʹ)
  • Khanty:
    • Eastern Khanty: кӧйәӈ (köjəṇ)
    • Northern Khanty: кей (kjej)
• Proto-Samic: *kāθvē (see there for further descendants)
• →? Proto-Germanic: *kattuz (possibly as a Wanderwort; the intermediate source is unknown) (see there for further descendants)
  • →? Latin: cattus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Entry #222 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.