Reconstruction:Proto-Mari/śĭr

This Proto-Mari 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-Mari

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *śerɜ.

Noun

*śĭr

1. nature, character

Descendants

• Western Mari: сӹр (sÿr)
• Eastern Mari: шыр (šyr), сыр (syr)

References

• Aikio, Ante. 2014. "On the reconstruction of Proto-Mari vocalism". In Journal of Language Relationship 11, pp. 125–157.