Reconstruction:Proto-Mordvinic/śeďəj

This Proto-Mordvinic 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-Mordvinic

Alternative forms

• *śeďəŋ

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *śüdäme. Cognate with Proto-Finnic *südän, Proto-Samic *čëδēm, Proto-Mari *šü̆m and Proto-Permic *śȯlem.

Noun

*śeďəj

1. heart

Descendants

• Erzya: седей (śeďej)
• Moksha: седи (śeďi)

References

• Entry #960 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
• Keresztes, László (1986) Geschichte der mordwinischen Konsonantismus II. Etymologisches Belegmaterial‎^[1], Szeged: Studia Uralo-Altaica 26.