Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/äjmä

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

*äjmä

1. needle

Descendants

• Proto-Samoyedic: *ejmä
  • Nenets
    • Tundra Nenets: нӣбя (nyībya)
  • Enets:
    • Forest Enets: нээ
  • Nganasan: неймы
  • Kamassian: ниими (niimi)
  • Koibal: неме
  • Mator: име̄
• Proto-Permic: *em (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Mari: *imə (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Finnic: *äimä (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Samic: *ājmē (see there for further descendants)

References

• Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN

External links

• Entry #37 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.