Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/towe

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.

Sammallahti (1988) reconstructs *toxe, supposing that only *x is word-medially lost in Samoyedic. According to Aikio (2002: 35, 49), also the semivowels *j, *w were lost before 2nd-syllable *e (compare e.g. *sewe-, *śowe), which would allow the reconstruction *towe.

*towe

1. lake, pond

• Proto-Samoyedic: *to
  • Nganasan: турку (turku)
  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets: то
    • Tundra Enets: (to)
  • Nenets:
    • Forest Nenets: (tō)
    • Tundra Nenets: то (tō)
  • Selkup:
    • Northern Selkup: то (to)
    • Southern Selkup:
      • Narym: то̄ (tō)
      • Upper Ob: то (to)
  • Kamassian: тху (tʰu)
  • Mator: тоа
• Ugric:
  • Hungarian: tó
  • Mansi:
    • Southern Mansi: то̄ (tō)
  • Khanty: *toɣ
    • Eastern Khanty: төг (tøg)
    • Northern Khanty: тув (tuw)
• Proto-Permic: *tu̇
  • Komi:
    • Komi-Permyak: ты (ty)
    • Komi-Zyrian: ты (ty)
  • Udmurt: ты (ty)

• Aikio, Ante. 2002. "New and Old Samoyed Etymologies". Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 57, pp. 9–57.
• 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 #1070 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.