Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/pälä

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.

*pälä

1. half

• Proto-Samoyedic: *pälä
  • Nganasan: хелы (xjelɨ)
  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets: (ferie)
    • Tundra Enets: (fere)
  • Nenets:
    • Forest Nenets: пеԯя (pyeԯya)
    • Tundra Nenets: пеля (pyelya)
  • Selkup:
    • Northern Selkup: (päl)
  • Kamassian: (pʰiil)
  • Mator: холя
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: fél
  • Khanty:
    • Eastern Khanty: (peḷək)
    • Northern Khanty: пеләк (pjelək)
  • Mansi:
    • Northern Mansi: па̄л (pāl)
• Proto-Permic: *pɔ̇l
  • Komi:
    • Komi-Permyak: пӧв (pöv)
    • Komi-Zyrian: пӧв (pöv)
  • Udmurt: пал (pal)
• Mari:
  • Western Mari: пелӹ (pelÿ)
  • Eastern Mari: пел (pel)
• Mordvinic:
  • Proto-Mordvinic: *päľə, *päľ (“half”)
    • Erzya: пеле (peľe), пель (peľ)
    • Moksha: пяле (päľe), пяль (päľ)
  • Proto-Mordvinic: *pola (“spouse; part”)
    • Erzya: пола (pola)
    • Moksha: пола (pola)
• Proto-Samic: *pealē (irregular) (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *pooli (see there for further descendants)

• *pala (“bit”)
• *päle (“side”)

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