I have noted before that Proto-Uralic *ü, whose reconstruction has at times been opposed by various scholars, has never received a truly detailed defense. Arguments contra have never been very detailed either — but one recurring claim has been that…
I claimed in my post “Two Lemmata” that the reconstruction of Proto-Uralic *ë rests on quite firm ground by now. Regardless, it is still not too rare to see studies which fail to recognize the idea. [1] Apparently the existence…
Recently I’ve gotten one project underway to a usable shape: the assembly of a database of Proto-Samoyedic vocabulary. So far this includes the PSmy roots listed in main source on the topic: Janhunen’s Samojedischer Wortschatz (1977, Castreanumin toimitteita 17), their…
Freelance reconstruction 