Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/waśke
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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
Etymology
May be borrowed from (Pre-)Proto-Tocharian *wi̯äsā (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-.[1]
Noun
*waśke
Descendants
- Proto-Samoyedic: *wäsä
- Proto-Ugric: *waś
- Proto-Permic: *wäś (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Mordvinic: *uśkə
- Erzya: уське (uśke)
- Proto-Samic: *veaškē (< *wäśkä)
- Proto-Finnic: *vaski (“copper, bronze”) (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- Entry #1123 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
References
- ^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) “Metals”, in The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 241: “*hₐewes-”