Monthly Archives: January 2026

Etymology squib: *tewə ‘work’

In this post title I refer to a well-known western Uralic isogloss: Finnic *töö, Mordvinic ⁽*⁾ťev, both ‘work’, whose standard reconstruction has been *tewə (or *tewe or *tewi) for long now. Further origin of this noun has remained unclear, but

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