Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/nejde

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

*nejde

1. girl

Descendants

• Samoyedic:
  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets: [script needed] (nere-kétschu, “lass, female child”)
• Proto-Permic: *nu̇l (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Samic: *niejtë (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *neiti (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Entry #592 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.