Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/keččä

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.

*keččä

1. circle, ring

• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: kégy (“stadium, racecourse, landmark”)
  • Khanty:
    • Eastern Khanty: кӫтш (kø̈tš)
  • Khanty:
    • Northern Mansi: кис (kis)
• Permic:
  • Komi-Zyrian: кыч (kyć)
  • Udmurt: кыч (kyć), кыш (kyš)
• Proto-Samic: *kiesëtēk
  • Northern Sami: giessat
• Proto-Finnic: *kehä
  • Finnish: kehä

? From *käččä:

• Mari:
  • Eastern Mari: кече (keče, “sun”)
  • Western Mari: кечӹ (kečÿ, “sun”)
• Proto-Mordvinic: *či ~ *ši
  • Erzya: чи (či, “sun, day”), (archaic) че (če)
  • Moksha: ши (ši, “sun, day”)

• Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎ (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
• Rédei, Károly (1986–88) Uralisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Uralic Etymological Dictionary] (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 #275 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.