First-syllable *ə in Proto-Mordvinic?

Posted on Mon 2020-09-14 by sansdomino — Leave a comment

The following is, currently, more of a hypothesis I wish to record than an actual result. Out of the two Mordvinic languages, Erzya shows the simple vowel inventory /i e a o u/ (plus a recent marginal /ɨ/ phonemicized by…

Probably not a valid etymology: *čäččä ‘birch bark’

Posted on Wed 2020-07-15 by sansdomino — 4 Comments

The Proto-Finnic word for ‘birch bark’ was *toohi (consonant stem: *toohë-, partitive *tooh-ta), continued directly in Finnish and Karelian tuohi, Veps toh’. The southern Finnic languages mainly show derivatives: Votic toho, standard Estonian toht(u-), Võro tohk(o-), Livonian tū’oigõz (however EES…

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First-syllable *ə in Proto-Mordvinic?

Probably not a valid etymology: *čäččä ‘birch bark’