Reconstruction:Proto-Uralic/tewä

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

Etymology

Sometimes compared to Proto-Tungusic *tibŋa (“male deer, elk”), Proto-Turkic *tebe (“camel”) ("deer" in North Siberian Turkic languages).

Noun

*tewä

1. elk
2. deer

Descendants

• Ugric
  • >? Hungarian: tehén (“cow”)
• Samoyedic
  • Nganasan: taa (“deer”)
  • Kamassian: тягӧ (tagö, “deer”), тхо (tʰo, “deer”)
  • Tundra Nenets: ты (tı, “deer”)